Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know that there persists real and present danger to that peace . . . This danger rises in various places, none more critical at this moment than at the ancient crossroads of the world, the Middle East, where whole civilizations meet. Ancient animosities flare anew. . . In such a critical situation we cannot expect to erase suddenly the bitter heritage of the ages. We can-we must -and we shall-go on striving to do all in our power to heal old wounds, rather than let them re-open into bloodshed. We can-and we do-use the full moral power of America...
...White House seems to have dismissed the Russian offer out of hand, but the world and the American people expect sober consideration from our leaders." So spoke Candidate Adlai Stevenson one day last week after he had learned that the President had rejected a letter from Russia's Premier Bulganin backing Adlai's campaign proposals to stop H-bomb tests...
...near the end of the first tour that Nixon made his own personal breakthrough. He headed for Hartford, despite warnings from some jittery Connecticut Republicans who thought that the anti-Nixon propaganda had created a serious antipathy toward him in the state. They told him not to expect much of a reception, to be prepared for small turnouts and open hostility. When he rode into Hartford's Bushnell Park at noon one October day a crowd of some 8,000 was there to greet and cheer him. Connecticut G.O.P. leaders were amazed; Nixon was reassured...
...greatest compliment that can be paid to Conductor Michael Senturia it that he fully fills the shoes of the Orchestra's departed founder, Michael Greenebaum. Under Senturia's direction, we can expect another year of high achievement from the Bach Society Ochestra...
Maria justifies her behavior firmly. "They say my family is very short of money. Before God, I say why should they blame me? I feel no guilt and I feel no gratitude. I like to show kindness, but you mustn't expect thanks, because you won't get any. That's the way life is. If some day I need help, I wouldn't expect anything from anybody. When I'm old. nobody is going to worry about...