Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czech foreign policy is Germany. I can't expect anybody in America to realize the intense batred these people have for the Germans. It's a mania. The three million Germans who were in CRS before the war and during the occupation were moved bodily back to Germany. Before the war the Germans here enjoyed national privileges. They had their own schools and churches and spoke their own language, (Kafta was one of them, but also a Jew.) The hatred is so great that German signs at international railroad cars have been painted over, German (which all the Czechs, speak...
...that he's the most respected man in the country. People will do absolutely everything or anything he says. He calls every play and there are no disputes. It's a system that works because they've had two good men, Masaryk pero and Benes, but what they can expect in the future is even more doubtful than the future of the American presidency...
...Trappists this year. Last July 33 Trappist monks, brothers and novices established the Monastery of the Holy Trinity on a 1,640-acre ranch at the head of the Ogden valley near Ogden, Utah. Outside work is finished on a temporary monastery of Quonset-type buildings. Soon the monks expect to begin work on an irrigation system, and on gardens and orchards...
Nightclubbing Parisians, who had seen her movies and heard her records, knew something of what to expect. In the midst of France's troubles last week, well-dressed Parisians packed the smart, red-walled Club des Champs Elysées, to see Lena Horne's Continental debut. Word had drifted across the channel of Lena's smashing success in London-and by midnight the atmosphere was electric...
...wonder, either, that last week's opening had most Broadway critics not just tossing their hats in the air but completely losing their heads. For this Antony is so much better than Broadway's burnt veterans dared expect that they could be excused for thinking it better than it is. It is good; but it has limitations and even weaknesses. It exhibits almost every grade of acting. It could sometimes be grander, and sometimes more exciting; and it could many times do better by Shakespeare's language...