Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time when Johnston returned to the Middle East, his success, said an American observer, was greater "than anybody had a right to expect." In six quick days in Cairo, Johnston, with much help from Egypt's government, hammered out a give-and-take agreement with the Arabs. The Arabs abandoned their alternative proposal. Johnston, in return, agreed to: 1) their demand for additional dams on the Yarmuk, and 2) their insistence that the Jordan waters be used "only within the Jordan basin" (which rules out irrigating Israel's Negeb...
With that, Murray applied his definition of loyalty to the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer: "It was reasonable to expect that he would be particularly scrupulous in his fidelity to security regulations. These regulations are the special test of the loyalty of the American citizen who serves his Government in the sensitive area of the atomic energy program. Dr. Oppenheimer did not meet this decisive test. He was disloyal...
...letter was not its content but its timing. The triumvirate had timed its first joint pronouncement to make clear that it was not part of the no-raiding pact or the unity parade. Without Lewis, McDonald and Beck, labor unity is more fiction than fact. Although few labor men expect McDonald to pull out of the C.I.O. or Beck to leave the A.F.L., their new phantom federation with Lewis produces more rather than less labor disunity. Obvious indications that the trio is making long-range plans to use its joint force in legislative and political battles prompted many a labor...
...help victims. Meanwhile, a special committee in Flint was raising more than $900,000 in relief funds. Did the Red Cross get any of its money back? Said Harriman: "Not one cent of this was turned over to Red Cross . . . Communities that don't help themselves . . . can scarcely expect in the future to be recipients of nationwide generosity." Harriman added the same thing had happened "elsewhere." A Red Cross pressagent told a newsman that Harriman meant Waco, Texas and Worcester, Mass., both scenes of destructive tornadoes last year. Teletype machines clacked out the story across the country...
...said: "I have some friends and contacts who are thinking about coming to your bank to rob it. I would like to talk to you about maybe leaving the vault open some night so they could do it," and your branch manager rejected the suggestion. Would you expect that branch manager to report the incident...