Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day there was a shocked silence in Belgrade. This was Khrushchev the dictator talking, sure now of his ascendancy, contemptuous of all but his. own, threatening to crush anything in his way. When the time came to change the theme of benevolence, an exile in Ust Kamenogorsk could expect no mercy...
...highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber on the ballads, bouncy and loud in the jump numbers. "You expect a high, tinkling voice," said a reflective late drinker, "and she opens up and comes...
...hottest oil play, well over 200 companies will spend $160 million for exploration this year alone, and they are just getting started. Says Home Oil Geologist Alexander Clark: "This region is where Texas was 30 years ago. In the next 25 or 30 years, it is not unreasonable to expect there will be found hundreds of fields, some small, but others as big as anything yet found...
...rectification" campaign began before China's timid intellectuals found the courage to raise their voices. For his attack on Mao, Editor Chu An Ping was suspended from his party. General Lung's co-workers publicly rebuked him for "slandering the Soviet Union with malice." Critics could expect vigorous counter-criticism, but as yet there was-no evidence that they would suffer worse. The basic fact about their criticism is that the West's knowledge of it comes solely from Communist sources: the official newspapers first trumpet the criticism then later reject it; all is controlled...
...prefer to absorb the increases-which amount to only $11.58 on a $3,000 car, 66? on a $300 refrigerator-rather than raise prices; others may delay price increases for many months. A spokesman for one of the big three automakers said, for example, that he did not expect the steel increase to affect the price of 1958 models (though labor and other costs may raise the price...