Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work" they are doing. Morrow could not swallow that. An hour after urging him to resign, he said, the governor "made a speech crying that he would never bend a knee to the will of the national committee. Well, why in God's name does he expect me to bend a knee to the same bunch...
Promptly arrested, Wintle was triumphant. "It will be a sad day for this country when an officer and gentleman is not prepared to go to prison when he thinks he is in the right," he proclaimed. "One must expect some casualties." Added the fierce little colonel, screwing his mon ocle into his good eye: "I have been accustomed to meeting the enemy and trying to trap him wherever I have...
...entitled to vote, and 1,250,000 out of the eligible 1,600,000 registered to do so. The response was greatest among the Malays, much less among the native-born Chinese, who almost equal the Malays numerically now and, because of a higher birth rate, expect to outnumber them in a few years. For the 52 available seats in the Legislative Council there were 129 candidates, most of them Malays. But Chinese interest in the general election was not entirely lacking. The principal backers of the powerful Alliance Party are wealthy Chinese businessmen, although the party is largely made...
Televiewers had reason to expect some pretty good entertainment last week. On the bill was a sampling of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon (TIME, June 13), one of the most accomplished hip-flippers in the song-and-dance business; a play by Eugene O'Neill; a dramatic role filled by Maureen Stapleton, one of Broadway's more gifted emoters; a new version of Kitty Foyle, that nostalgic, bittersweet tale of the between-wars world; and a dramatization of a true adventure from the life of former French Premier Pierre Mendès-France. But after going through the TV meat...
...more evidence of market rigging (TIME, June 20). The Government charged Manhattan's Jacob Stern & Co. with virtually cornering the supply of cash potatoes on the New York Mercantile Exchange in February so that it could juggle prices. The shortage that made cornering easier is ending. Government forecasters expect that the summer crop may be 20% over last year...