Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major programs, such as the North Atlantic alliance and additional Marshall Plan funds, for which Vandenberg had led the fight, he could again be expected to help out. But Harry Truman could not expect Vandenberg to support any "impromptu and unpredictable" foreign policy the President might embark...
...there is nothing definite about them. Through tricks of contrast and perspective he makes the shapes in his painting shift and change as the looker looks, even makes the colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want to push a green so it looks red." Isn't that a rather experimental approach? "Yes, all my work is experimental...
...from the press. He had also personally drafted the agenda of the conference and the armistice preamble, which one Israeli delegate called "a brilliant piece of statesmanship." At week's end, Bunche, still hard at work, was leaving the optimism to his aides. Cried one of them: "I expect to be on my way to Geneva by the middle of next week." Said Bunche: "We still have the most difficult hurdles to take...
...made to understand that he is no longer a stripling; otherwise, the inevitable shock, when it does come, will be greater, perhaps disastrous. The patient, thinks Gumpert, should be told what he can do and cannot do safely-and even (if the doctor can guess) how long he may expect to live. Then the doctor should do his best to make him live long and like...
...Ford and Chrysler "new" used cars were still selling at over the list prices last week. Thus, most automakers thought that car prices would stay where they were for a long time. As for Wilson, who wanted prices to come down, too, he said: "I don't expect to see Chevrolet selling [again] for $500 or $600 in my lifetime." And C.E., like G.M., appears to be in the best of health...