Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poland, Communist Wladyslaw Gomulka had won a palace revolution by invoking the spirit of his people. In Hungary it was the people themselves who spoke. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
Despite the recent flurry of research advances, there is still no cure for rheumatoid arthritis-not in drugs, and certainly not in diet. But from judicious drug treatment and intensive aftercare, the unfortunate victim of this most damaging form of rheumatism can expect substantial early relief, and later, a fair recovery...
...Though personal savings have increased at an annual rate of $4.5 billion, from $16.7 billion to $21.2 billion in the last year, economists doubt that they are rising fast enough to satisfy the demand for money. Other sources of investment funds are also falling behind, e.g., life insurance companies expect to increase their new assets by only $6 billion in 1956. As things stand, says New York University Economist Raymond Rodgers, rapidly expanding mortgage credit alone will sop up virtually all new savings accounts this year, plus two-thirds of all the new funds accumulated by life insurance companies...
...however, a recognizable limit to what may be learned by means of drinking." Furthermore, he adds, "I squandered a great deal of money that I earned as a writer and I lost a lot of it gambling." As a result, "I am head over heels in debt. I expect to get out of debt by writing or not at all. I have no savings account, no stocks, or bonds, no real estate, no insurance, no cash ... I simply have got to hustle for a living...
...were a mistake not to expect a pass in that situation, then the Crimson also made a mistake in winning the toss at the start and electing to take the wind at its back, and thus kick off, rather than receive. For Penn took the kick-off and moved straight to a touchdown. Hyland had returned the kick to the Harvard 47 on a great run, and 12 plays later Ross sneaked from...