Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the Negro is a member of a minority constituting some 11% of the U.S. population, he can never expect to register more than modest victories in the ballot box unless he wins white adherents to his cause. Here, also, black pride is dictating the new posture, which is not that of a needy supplicant begging for white assistance, but that of an equal who proclaims his self-sufficiency and his value as any man's ally. Many facets of Negro community life now reflect this concerted effort on the part of the Negro to elevate his own status...
...size of yesterday's victory surprised coach Edo Marion even though Harvard has always beaten Holy Cross. "I didn't expect such a score." Marion said. "24-3 is a very, very big score in fencing...
...rented home near Radcliffe. He appears fairly content with Harvard, although he permits himself one general disgruntlement. "The thing I miss here is beauty," he says. "There are too many buildings in Cambridge, and the weather is abominable. Since my youth in France, I've come to expect a warm ocean as a natural right, and I think no one has an excuse for living in New England. We professors who enjoy Mediterranean landscapes--and there are many of us--should petition Harvard to buy us a farm in southern France when we retire...
Wehner and Socialist ministers in the coalition defended their actions as necessary for Germany's welfare, promised to press hard for Socialist goals when the country can better afford them. Brandt managed to defuse the conference by warning the Christian Democrats not to expect the Socialists to be "meek as lambs." "I call the Grand Coalition neither a marriage of love nor a shotgun marriage," he said, "but a question of practical politics." After that, the Socialist delegates departed, considerably meeker themselves...
...didn't expect many Radcliffe girls to want to work in Harvard dining halls because it's not really a glamorous job," Miss Glenn said yesterday...