Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely because of the upswing in beef, pork and potato prices. Main result: a 1?-an-hour wage increase for more than 100,000 workers whose pay is geared to the index. Government forecasters, with an eye toward possible wage and price increases in the steel industry (see below), expect the index to go on rising even higher in the months ahead...
...best in this first visit to America: "I've discovered air conditioning! You may quote me as saying that since I came to America I'd rather sleep with air conditioning than with my husband!" Chimed in her husband, handsome British Realty Man Dennis Hamilton: "But I expect a reconciliation imminently...
Wellesley's Group 20 Players offered a fine foretaste of the high standards that we can expect during their regular summer schedule in their production of Robert E. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." This too was a good choice; it is not so much a play as a series of twelve vignettes, but it has already become a warm and humane American classic. It is great because it doesn...
Hancox scoured the area until other rescue planes arrived. Two hours later the Navy cargo ship Lt. Robert Craig plowed through the shark-filled waters where Mike Sierra went down, later radioed tersely: "Found no survivors . . . Expect to find none...
...Praise women more than men. "Women really expect praise in greater quantities than men. Your failure to comment favorably is likely to be interpreted as disapproval...