Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect some support should the front-running candidates stumble. "I like Chuck," says Barry Goldwater, whom Percy supported in 1964. "I've worked for him, he's worked for me. I'd support him." But Percy's chief problem is inexperience, which is only accentuated by his boyish looks...
...federal government needs to spend more money, he said, for programs like urban beautification, rehabilitation, model cities, and city planning. He hopes for an increase of $2 billion a year in federal spending and does not expect resistance from the senate in withholding appropriations because of the fear of race riots...
...Baltimore cannot possibly duplicate last year's effort. Steve Barber, the only established starter, is suffering from his perpetual sore arm. Wally Bunker was 10-6 last year, but his 4.28 ERA is perhaps a better indicator of what to expect. The Orioles' three World Series shutouts of the tired Dodgers were more miracle than norm for a staff that compiled only 22 complete games all year. Their relievers saved them last year, but Stu Miller is approaching 40, Moe Drabowsky's 7-0 record was preceded by a 48-81 and 4.19 ERA lifetime mark, and Dick Hall...
There was, however, no constructive criticism in Romney's first major Vietnam address -- and it was chimerical to expect any. What he did was to favor a middle course and project himself into the middle of the Republican Party. He warned against "massive military escalation in Vietnam," but emphasized that the United States' military effort "must succeed." In short, it was the President's policy...
...married couples whose religious beliefs interpose no moral problem, the pill is indeed a boon. Biologists have computed that under a dictum of St. Augustine, permitting "only those sexual relations which are necessary to procreation," a man could not expect to have intercourse more than 55 times in his life. But the late Alfred C. Kinsey's studies indicated that the average American has intercourse 5,500 times, leaving coitus with procreative intent at a mere 1%. Dr. S. Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned...