Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shame Delaware into action. Members' speeches, once buried in the back of newspapers, now make the front pages. Some school districts have taken an interest in trustee elections for the first time in years. Others have even voted to raise their own school taxes. Toy doesn't expect to lick the whole problem once & for all. Says he: "Interest will die down, and the schools will deteriorate. That will be the time for someone to start the cycle all over again...
Time was, when people heard an explosion, they just knew it was something big. The old gas tank out in Everett couldn't last forever, and the fireworks factory in Waltham, well, it was only common sense to expect that to blow sky high, and there were those manhole covers in South Boston, always popping off and scaring a lot of honest people. Yes-sir, those were the days when a bang meant trouble...
...recording both pictures and sound on a single 16-mm. film instead of recording them separately, as before, ABC and RCA expect to cut recording costs from $225 to $60 for a half-hour show...
...story is about what you would expect in a second-rate comic opera. A proper Bostonian (Sinatra) arrives in Spanish-owned California to take over an inn and a gang of bandits inherited from his father. The rootin'-tootin' father had been bored with innkeeping, but he was a great hand at banditry and kissing the women he robbed. The son is a shaky beanpole who falls off his horse at the drop of a hoof. He is afraid of guns and women, but anxious to see that the inn has plenty of clean sheets and towels...
...alternative was on his desk within a week of this statement. The Council's proposals should cut down both inter-departmental misunderstandings and unnecessary student investigatory efforts. But vice-President Reynolds can hardly expect to run the Harvard community without discussing complaints with student citizens. He can only ask that such questioning be pertinent, and that the investigators use as little of his time (and theirs) as possible...