Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present phase of partnership is marked by each nation's fear that the other will become either too strong-or too weak. For the past five months London has been eying Paris with especial nervousness. As senior man in office, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had every right to expect that new Premier de Gaulle should make the first visit to him in London. Instead, last week, as a gesture of good will, Macmillan flew to Paris. Obviously pleased, protocol-conscious General de Gaulle, who rarely leaves his own office when he is in Paris, drove out to the airport...
After its worst first quarter since World War II, the trucking industry last week saw signs that business is picking up. Tonnage hauled in May was 2.6% above April (though still down 5.8% from last year). Truckers expect the June figures to show a bigger rise. To economists, who consider trucking a good index of general business conditions, it was another cheering sign of improvement in the U.S. economy. Truckers haul about 20% of the nation's freight -and because most of their freight is finished products rather than raw materials, they are sensitive to a pickup in sales...
...Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles decided to 1) refrain from denouncing the Russian backout threat, and 2) send U.S. experts to Geneva anyway, leaving it up to Moscow to break the engagement. Announced Dulles, at a special White House press conference: "As far as we are concerned, we expect the conference to proceed, and our experts will continue on their way." At week's end Russian experts were on their...
...that a Defense Department witness can answer congressional questions "frankly and honestly" without fear of "retaliation or penalty." But McElroy reserves the right to be "disappointed or regretful" over their views. Implication between the lines: an officer who sharply takes issue with the President and the Defense Secretary cannot expect them to like it-or forget it. Russell pronounces himself satisfied. End of flap...
...transcendentalist, Thoreau saw spirit at the heart of matter. But he was never so genteel as to gag at reality. "Let a man reserve a good appetite for his peck of dirt," he wrote, "and expect his chief wealth in unwashed diamonds." At 23, Thoreau was already grappling with the central dilemma of his life, how to know himself and be himself under the raised eyebrow of conformist society: "It is always easy to infringe the law-but the Bedouins of the desert find it impossible to resist public opinion...