Word: expecta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force, Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
...Trade. Brezhnev's whirl wind courtship of Bonn had a plain purpose. He was after a massive influx of West German capital and technological assistance into the Soviet economy But Bonn was taken aback by the Soviet leader's unrealistic economic expecta tions and his tendency to wave away German political questions in order to dwell on industrial projects. German leaders said Brezhnev seemed to have little awareness of West Germany's role and economic obligations in the EEC. After a long session with West German businessmen, in which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge...