Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Court of Appeals is reviewing Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision to delay for 2½ years integration at Little Rock Central High; if the delay is refused, it will take a brave Negro to claim his rights at school's opening. Most Arkansans also expect trouble in the seven other communities that have already begun integration. In seven Southern states-Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-there is no integration at all, and the newly emboldened anti-integration forces are waiting to see the outcome of next month's tests...
Four weeks after the revolution, it begins to look as if El-Kassim may be fated to play Naguib to Aref's Nasser. In a speech three weeks ago, Aref left little doubt about his own beliefs-or what the West might expect, should the extremists decide that soft-spoken El-Kassim had outlived his usefulness...
...optimism in the College that the forces of good will open their money-boxes. Meanwhile, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences looks to the years under the new curriculum as the most challenging that it and its students have ever experienced. Students, too, their mumblings at last realized, expect their education to be more engaging than ever. Let the recession, the summits, the drafts be damned: things look good for Harvard--and American higher education
...businessmen expect competitive pressures and excess capacity to keep price rises small. The U.S. economy can take the flurries of a foreign crisis in stride...
...Relatives. In Africa, they expect even greater care from a wife than she must give to her husband. Of all relatives who stick their noses in a wife's affairs, sisters-in-law are the worst. "In my country," reported a Togoland woman, "sisters-in-law are more dangerous than mothers...