Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide bounds of social ism, he is compared to the 15th century Czechoslovak Theologian Jan Hus, who tried to reform the Roman Catholic Church from within but saw his followers break away and form their own movement. Hus was burned at the stake. Dubček does not expect any such fate-but he is feeling plenty of heat because of the course on which he has launched Czechoslovakia...
...Renegades cannot expect impunity," Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev told a Moscow party meeting last week. "The Soviet public harshly denounces the abominable deeds of these double-dealers." Brezhnev was talking about the country's increasingly restless intellectuals, many of whom have al ready been subjected to show trials and long prison sentences for displeasing the state. Before the situation gets better for them, Brezhnev indicated, it will get much worse...
Nancy's record is all the more remarkable because few experts expected much from her this year. Only three weeks before the Winter Games, she severely strained the ligaments in 'her left ankle. The experts should have remembered what a gutsy competitor she is. In the 1966 World Championships at Portillo, Chile, she caught an edge in the downhill and somersaulted into a retaining wall at 60 m.p.h. "I've never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy...
...taxes and devaluation, Qrit-ons can expect their cost of living in 1968 to increase at least 5% and possibly more. But Jenkins also announced that he intends to hold Britain's wage increases to a maximum of 3½% for another 18 months. That grim arithmetic means that Britons will not get enough extra money to meet the rising costs. As a result, for the first time in 17 years, the British will experience a downturn in their standard of living...
Rematch? Mismatch was more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...