Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb attack, U.S. cities as far as 190 miles away from the actual explosion could expect a deadly fallout of wind-borne radioactive particles (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week in Madison, Wis., the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory described a new building material called "diffusion board," that can protect against direct contact with radioactive dust...
...collegians do not expect, in a few months, to transform their charges into fervent churchgoers. Their long-range purpose: "To show people that the gospel is concerned with every phase of life-to give them a reason to live...
...sixth in one year, will make it the world's largest producer of lingerie, stockings and women's accessories. Solidly in the black, after six years in which sales plummeted from $27,500,000 to $19,400,000 (fiscal 1954 loss: $500,000), Kayser and subsidiaries expect to gross more than $45 million this year, up to $85 million...
...tortured, plodding style, goes on to crank out some astonishing, dervish-like activity. Lilacs and Portals, by one of the "bad boys" of the '20s, Carl Ruggles (played by the Juilliard String Orchestra), are handsome but dated experiments in sound combinations. Since Columbia can hardly expect to show a profit on this series anyway, it seems a shame it does not grit its worthy teeth and bring out at least a few samples of really controversial music...
...Reginald Bennett in The Practitioner: "The honeymoon is an ordeal. More often than not it is a ghastly disappointment, and one whose personal humiliations no excuses ... can mitigate. All too often the girl, if she had been a good girl has lacked any semblance of learning in what to expect ... The naughty girl has gradually learned through experiment. So the wages of sin is serenity and the wages of virtue-shock, plus a married life endangered from the start . ._ " [After] the sheer fatigue of the weddin day [there is] inevitably a long evening or night's traveling to complete...