Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't expect major opposition other than on grounds of feasibility," White said. "These grounds have not yet been thoroughly explored. The problem is that nobody knows just what next year's graduate school population will look like...
Borges avoids the pendantic bookishness one would expect of a man of his learning. In the lectures--as in his fictions, essays and poetry--his eclecticism distills the literary experience of the past into his own distinctive brand of creativity...
...Nobody knows what to expect-unless it's the unexpected," wrote a Montreal sports columnist when action in the new twelve-team National Hockey League got under way last October. Few fans expected that by last week both divisions of the expanded league would be battling down to the wire in the tightest N.H.L. race in years. In the new West Division, six points-the equivalent of three victories-separated the top four teams. In the old East, the Montreal Canadiens were in front by only eight points; the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers were tied for second...
...good white Harvard people come down to help us poor Southern Negroes--you come down here and take over--and you expect us to love you. We don't owe you anything--we didn't ask you to come. We don't want your help...
Above all, the administration did not expect the tutors to be critical of what they have done and are doing. On paper, the Shaw record is impressive. Since James Cheek took over as President in 1964, big changes have been made. Only six months after he was installed, the new President had pulled Shaw out of the red. In three years he has raised faculty salaries 150 per cent. Last year things looked so good that Cheek launched a $14.5 million building program. By almost any standard, the figures are encouraging...