Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff, wartime Army intelligence special ist. Heart of Kissinger's analysis: Americans must drastically revise their hopes for Communist redemption, e.g., through disarmament, their fears of all-out war, and their mental clichés about the shape of the next war, if they expect to win out against a relentless, single-minded enemy...
...matter how thin it is sliced, 1957 has been a half-baked congressional year. Accordingly, the Eisenhower Administration could hardly expect more than a half-loaf mutual security bill-and that, last week, was precisely what it was getting. A conference committee compromised differences between House and Senate foreign-aid bills by cutting them right down the middle...
...their confidence. Disintegration, they thought, was starting in the Soviet Union. In order to prevent these creatures from making a new October, we asked them, 'Gentlemen, please step inside.' " Invitations went only to "good classic fascist figures," said Marosan-counts, colonels, landowners. The good classic figures could expect soon to be propped up before kangaroo courts to establish the legend of the fascist revolt...
When heavy cigarette smoking was first indicted as the major cause of the radical increase in lung cancer, scarcely more than 1% of cigarettes had filter tips. Today at least 40% have them, and tobacco experts expect the figure soon to hit 75%. But do the filters help? Up to now. the cynical answer has been that they help to sell cigarettes, and nothing more. Last week a congressional committee* opened an investigation of cigarette filters, for which the public pays a premium of $500,000 a day. Weight of the evidence: there is hope in improved filters...
...fans have come to expect dramatic accidents when they tune in on Paco Malgesto, the Arthur Godfrey of Mexico rolled into one. He appears on two of the country's three TV networks for a grand total of 8½ hours a week, spieling and laughing through a mixture of variety shows, bullfight commentaries, interview and quiz programs, and assorted sports shows. Paco almost never rehearses, believes in doing or saying on-screen what comes naturally ("When I itch, I scratch"), somehow has parlayed a combination of glibness, amiability and sports knowledge into nationwide fame and fortune. (Paco reports...