Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Israel's latest answer was an almost final no, and the latest What If still loomed. In a remarkably strong statement issued at Thomasville, President Eisenhower once again urged Israel to withdraw, noted that Israel had received "the maximum assurance that it can reasonably expect at this juncture, or that can be reconciled with fairness to others." Meanwhile, the U.S. had answered a bigger question: What if armed Communism tries an overt gunpoint grab in the Middle...
...made a helluva talk-without notes," said one participant. "And his biggest contribution was tying all this into one thing, showing that you simply couldn't expect to push down trouble in one place and not expect it to pop up somewhere else." The result for Radford was that Ike forgot the old feuds, decided to jump Radford all the way to replace the retiring General Bradley as J.C.S. chairman. "If Radford will work for the country as hard as he worked for the Navy," Ike told his colleagues, "then he'll do a fine...
...with genius and knowledge. A man who had read Homer was well on his way to being educated. But at that time the people who read Homer were more likely to be looking for education, which they found in Homer. Now they read Homer because it is required, and expect education to take care of itself. Unfortunately, education never takes care of itself. And so the University is beginning to believe that they must take care of it for the students. While this is by definition impossible, it is also necessary if Harvard is going to bring culture...
...find out how much damage mankind should expect from strontium 90, one of the fallout isotopes, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission financed a study by Drs. J. Laurence Kulp, Walter R. Eckelmann and Arthur R. Schulert of Columbia's Lament Geological Observatory. Last week the team made a report in Science...
...senior looked nervously across the small table as the man from New England Mutual looked carefully over the proffered questionnaire. If the interview was a successful one, the student might expect a bright future in the Insurance business; if not, at least he knew where he stood...