Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paradoxically, this is due to the fact that TIME'S correspondent at Amsterdam brought to the assembly a preconception of what he loped for from it which was at variance with, and in one sense, loftier than, what either he or the delegates had a right to expect. He wanted a "Pentecost," that is, a visitation of the Holy Spirit like that described in Acts 2:7-11. The fact that no such spectacular miracle occurred does not necessarily mean that the Holy Spirit was not present. For the definitive Christian conception of the Holy Spirit is that...
...added an earnest warning. "I have no trick answers and no easy solutions," he declared. "I will not offer one solution to one group and another solution to another group. The American people have a right to expect honest answers and I propose to give them...
...cheered. Said Ernst Reuter simply: "He who surrenders Berlin surrenders a world, surrenders himself." Gustav Pietch, railroad labor leader, bellowed hoarsely: "The blockade has failed, and now the Communists can only wait for the help of General Hunger and Generalissimo-" (here he paused long enough for the crowd to expect to hear "Stalin") "-Winter." Pietch concluded: "Again they will fail!" And the crowd roared its assent...
Professor Matthiessen believes that Harvard, where "the individual teacher is scarcely more than a hired hand," falls short of what "American society has a right to expect." He also decides, after a quick look around Paris, that "if I lived in France, I don't quite see how I could help being a Communist." But he glibly disavows Communism in the U.S. on the grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with...
...Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like the buzzing of a neurotic bumblebee, are recorded by Miss Stead in unsparing detail. To expect a reader to wade through several score pages of them is to ask too much...