Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cairo, the Egyptian government repudiated the cease-fire lines on the grounds that Israel had fortified the east bank of the canal and the world "cannot expect us to observe the cease-fire in the face of such fortifications." The U.S. termed Egypt's step "retrogressive" and, along with Britain, appealed to both sides to respect the truce. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant gloomily said that "the cease-fire has become almost totally ineffective in the Suez Canal sector, and a virtual state of active war now exists there...
...long enough to shake up-and shake down-the nation's prime President-watchers: the White House press corps. Some new reportorial figures have already begun to stand out in even that elite group, and the entire corps now has a good notion of what to expect from Richard Nixon. Compared with covering Jack Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson, these newsmen are finding their work more regular, less exciting and, for those trying to report in depth, much more difficult...
Nixon's orderly approach to running the Government allows White House reporters to plan their day; all they have to do is check the presidential schedule. They know when to pack their travel bags, when to expect a weekend at home. Gone are Johnson's impromptu press conferences and his sudden take-offs for Texas. Gone also is the spice of the unexpected, the spontaneity of a Kennedy quip or a Johnson sermonette. There is less news out of the Nixon White House, but when it comes, it is more likely to be substantive, less...
...haunting. This amateur spiritualist, for one, suspects that the production may be infected by restless remnants of last week's faculty meeting, for it is as short on clarity as it is long on good will, and frequently evinces the spirit of vain disputatiousness which we have come to expect of proceedings governed by Robert's Rules of Order...
...FINEST minds of this nation almost unanimously agree that deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system is logically and technically indefensible. Thus one might expect any debate of the issue to be an exercise in futility for the AMB'S defenders and an indulgence in verbal overkill for its opponents...