Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Draconian step, with profound, probably unforeseen, implications for the nation's educational system; many academic leaders expected the Johnson Administration to soften it. Last week, however, the Administration not only reaffirmed the no-deferment rule for graduate students (those already in their second year or beyond would not be affected), but also wiped out automatic occupational exemptions for some 340,000 professional men in such areas as teaching and various technical services...
...Russians came to the U.S. But as a symbol of U.S.-Russian cooperation, the reciprocal flight should eventually stimulate two-way traffic on the bridges the U.S. is trying to build with Eastern Europe. Best guess is that the new service will be under way, barring some unforeseen spasm in U.S.-Soviet relations, by early spring...
...Certain that whoever is elected President of the U.S. in 1968, President Johnson or a Republican, the U.S. will step up its military effort in Viet Nam. ^ Willing to continue going it alone unless the North is invaded, which would, said Giap, "cause grave unforeseen consequences"-by which he means, as well as a warning to the U.S., the unpalatable fact that Chinese troops might enter North Vietnamese territory...
...spoiled by the sweet taste of humanity that some of his masters allowed. "I will say this, without which you cannot understand the central madness of nigger existence," he explains. "Beat a nigger, starve him, leave him wallowing, and he will be yours for life. Awe him by some unforeseen hint of philanthropy, tickle him with the idea of hope, and he will want to slice your throat...
Increased rights for defendants, he observes, are having more than "a -few unforeseen effects. For one, "restrictions on the evidence available agafnst the guilty make the guilty-and the innocent look more alike." Today a guilty man is often convicted only because he hires a bad lawyer who cannot keep pace with liberalizing Supreme Court decisions that could well spring his client...