Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diplomats & Dickens. Watching from the sidelines, some of Britain's allies posed the same question that Russian diplomats in London had been asking for two weeks: What did Macmillan expect to accomplish by all this? Macmillan himself had described his trip as "something in the nature of a reconnaissance." He did not have the authority to speak for the Western alliance as a whole-though the British picture him, after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope...
...newsmen got no official help in keeping up with the duke. Though the prince is traveling by private jet plane, propeller transport and yacht, no British reporter-not even one who is accredited to Buckingham Palace-was allowed aboard. Following as best they might, the newsmen could expect only rudeness or a quarterdeck tongue-lashing when they got close. The duke has been especially testy about the swarms of Indian photographers. At New Delhi he asked irritably, "Who are all these people?", and turned to Prime Minister Nehru to remark cuttingly: "I thought there was a film shortage in your...
Brown has lost to league-leading Cornell and to Yale, but the varsity can expect a close, tough contest today...
...fluctuations in 1958 Beta Two ... seem to suggest ... semi-regular changes in the atmospheric density such as could be caused by variable solar radiation--for which one would expect to find occasional periodicities of the order of 27 days and possibly a correlation with geomagnetic activity...
Approximately six personal gifts totalling $20.5 million should furnish much of the needed money. Fund raisers expect both alumni and non-alumni sources to provide these gifts. "We hope we can uncover for Harvard the same kind of gift represented by Mr. Mellon's $15 million contribution to Yale," the public relations director said...