Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Price found it "utterly inconsistent on the one hand to expect southern whites to obey anti-segregation laws despite strong feelings supported by Biblical texts, and to expect on the other hand exemption from the law for the sake of our conscience in this...
...already given some 50,000 Negroes a sense of self-confidence and a commensurate demand for deeper participation in American society. "If anybody slights one of my soldiers for racial reasons when he gets home," says Glide Brown's commanding officer, Brigadier General John R. Deane, "I expect that soldier's going to get madder than hell...
...Whitney Young Jr., one of the few Negro civil rights leaders who have visited Viet Nam, warns in Harper's June issue that, along with his "new confidence," the Negro G.I. has acquired new skills "of guerrilla warfare, of killing, of subversion, and it would be realistic to expect such experts of mines and booby traps to find good reason why they should use these skills and risk their lives against the enemy of personal injustice as they did against the enemy of Communist aggression." Negro Leader Bayard Rustin has a more constructive view: "As the students...
...Gaulle's appearance was his first before the press since Great Britain had formally applied for entry into the Common Market, and the tensions and expectations were high. France's five partners in the Common Market wanted Britain in, and the British were optimistic that De Gaulle would not repeat his 1963 veto. Foreign Secretary George Brown told Parliament two weeks ago: "We expect to get in." Gaullists had even been circulating the word that De Gaulle would not impose another veto...
...Walter Lippmann. "It's what the Herald Tribune should have been and what the W.J.T. was not. I mean an excellent newspaper, not a big paper like the Times. It should have the best art, music, financial and political criticism that you could get. I wouldn't expect it to have a large circulation, but it would have an extremely profitable circulation...