Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ehrenburg and Simonov were probably among the toughest assignments the assembled reporters ever had to cover; for they weren't propagandists--that would have been easy. Many of the on-lookers, trained to expect a set pattern in Russian visitors, were jolted at the start by the striking difference in the two visitors' approach...
...indecent to suggest that there is some sort of Malthusian justice in the millions of famine deaths checking excessive growth of population. It is true that Indians are multiplying too fast. But it is sheer perversity to expect people who cannot afford an elementary education and a handful of rice to buy contraceptives. Everywhere in the world slums breed human beings too fast, and India is one vast slum. The remedy is not to lecture the Indians . . . but to abolish the slummy conditions of life...
...City Bank and "Boston Bank" (as Argentines call the Argentine branch of Boston's First National) prepared to get along with Perón on his terms. Said the Boston Bank's Vice President W. Latimer Gray: "We've been in business 30 years there, and expect to stay at least 30 more...
...Johnson expect to sell his ideas to conservative management? Johnson's answer: "I don't know. If ten years of depression and six of war economy have not taught our American management this lesson, I think it is beyond the pale and I am afraid they cannot be educated. I am afraid the job is going to be done by militant labor. It seems...
Replied Alpha Xi Delta's national president, Mrs. Beverly Robinson, a Washington clubwoman: ". . . I'm sorry this happened both for [Crystal's] sake and for ours. But I expect the girls up there thought she was an exotic and interesting person-the way you would think of someone from a foreign country. . . . When other fraternities decide to [admit Negroes] we probably will too. We don't try to be different." Her advice to the Vermont chapter: they should have told Crystal to form a Negro sorority. At Vermont, this would have to be a one-woman...