Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last of all, can any lasting peace result from this war, no matter who the victor may be? May the world expect another conflict twenty years after the end of the present struggle? An analysis of historical trends indicating fluctuations between periods of war and peace may solve the riddle...
...letter of Mr. E. P. Holton ... is the idea of a narrow-minded bigot who is never satisfied unless he is sticking his nose in someone else's business. This is the one thing that people in this world need to overcome if we expect any peace in the future. How can anyone suggest a fair payment of a nation's debts by subjecting a small minority of that nation's people to live under another flag and a different form of government...
...nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like a man repairing a puncture. Half the city, said he, more quietly...
Russell Sage's James Laurence Meader (an exception): "England and France . . . have the right to expect every type of service we are capable of rendering short of sending an expeditionary army. . . . [We must come] to their active assistance at once rather than wait until we find it necessary to fight Hitler and all that he stands for single-handed...
...when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When he is 18, his embittered grandfather dies, leaving him $500 and some advice: "Don't look for happiness, there isn't any such thing. Above all, don't expect it from women, they can't give what they haven...