Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after DiMaggio's flare-up at the reporters, he talked to them again, and this time sounded more like the old Di-Mag: "I definitely expect to be back in the line-up this season . . . These things have been cured before* and I guess it's just a matter of time...
Economics is one of the strongest fields at Harvard as far as quality of faculty personnel is concerned, but a manpower shortage in the younger ranks of the department which originated in wartime will mean that the Economics concentrator may expect little personal attention until his senior year, when he will be eligible for tutorial if he is an honors candidate...
Five of those listed expect to receive their bachelor of arts degrees in June, while the remaining 24 are now at graduate schools or have recently been engaged in graduates studies...
...repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader
...many another angry church member must have felt: 'God forbid that any clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed ... If he were to preach a funeral sermon over my corpse, I believe that like Lazarus, I would throw aside the cerements of the grave and come back to life in indignant resurrection...