Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another Cabinet member who had been widely rumored to be due for replacement, Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps.) On Capitol Hill, when Blumenthal returned from a break during a hearing before the House Budget Committee, a reporter cracked: "At least you came back." Replied Blumenthal: "What did you expect? Defenestration...
...TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was in Havana 20 years ago when Fidel Castro's bearded guerrillas marched into that city, there were striking parallels between the revolution in Cuba and the one that many observers expect will take hold in Nicaragua. The FSLN'S Slogan, FREE THE FATHERLAND OR DIE, was the battle cry of Nicaragua's legendary rebel leader of the 1930s, Augusto Sandino. It had inspired the Castroite catch phrase, FATHERLAND OR DEATH. While the people of Managua celebrated, the disciplined Sandinista troops, who will become the country's only effective force...
...keep the readers interested. Jumping from one woman to another and updating us on their lives requires a lot of fast stepping. Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There is no splashy ending, no grand resolution. Jaffe just kind of shuffles off stage, leaving her limp figures behind...
These gnawing problems and meager rewards, one might expect, would add up to an irresistible desire to chuck...
Says Leonard Fein, a cosigner of the letter and editor in chief of Moment, an independent Jewish monthly: "I expect that all the signers recognize that Elon Moreh is only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. Israel is squandering recklessly its most critical and natural resource-the good will that many people around the world, and in this country in particular, feel for this gutsy country...