Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hypocritical of Rhody McCoy to expect the Jew to be more noble because of the persecution he faced but not to expect the same of the black man. And how conciliatory of him to state that black anti-Semitism is just following the mainstream of white antiSemitism...
...sensible domestic strategy. Europeans were outspokenly dismayed by Lyndon Johnson's preoccupation with Asia at the expense of older Atlantic allies. Nixon's trip will counter that impression, perhaps inspire new purpose in NATO, and probably advance a Franco-American rapprochement. At home, the President can hardly expect a sudden breakthrough in the overweening problems of racial discord and dissent about the Viet Nam war. Europe is the area in which he can best hope to make some quick and perhaps dramatic progress...
...corporate chiefs, who have long complained of a profits squeeze, fared better in 1968 than they had any reason to expect. They were beset by rising labor and material costs, year-long predictions of imminent economic slow down and the 10% income tax surcharge. But the slowdown never materialized, and many companies managed to offset higher costs and taxes by increasing their prices and generating more sales. The results from early-reporting corporations indicate that after-tax prof its climbed by 6% from the $48 billion of 1967 and at least equaled the $51 billion record...
...never be realistically tested because of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. ABM proponents further assume that China might use her first long-range missiles even before developing simple decoy devices, already known to the American military, that can render Sentinels almost useless. As a response China could only expect obliteration of her own people. The tortured illogic required for such a Chinese decision is imaginable only by using...
...have his massage with Gabrielle. He had heard about these Esalen massages. For some people they were the most intense part of the five days; some has reported mystical, even psychedelic experiences during them. But the boy was skeptical; he had had massages before, and he did not expect that this one would be very different...