Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderful it is to have an American here." the father said. "We expect such great things from America." The conversation proceeded in generalities. Each time I tried to ask a question about living canditions or politics they ignored it and kept repeating "peace" and "friendship" and "great things from America." The Mullers would not let us leave. They wanted me to sit there and listen to them sadly mouthing phrases over and over again, evidently hoping that I understood what they wanted to say and could...
Trinity ("Well, there it is," he once exclaimed after plunking down another gift. "I never expect to give another dollar to it, and I wish I had never put a dollar into it"). His sons, Benjamin Newton and James Buchanan Duke, carried on the family tradition. Then, in 1910, Trinity got a new president who happened to have some ideas of his own on how to use the Duke money...
...week (donated by Good Housekeeping magazine), and Minnesota has already amassed $6,000 this year, all used for scholarships. The losers get wristwatches. To Co-Producer John Moses the biggest surprise of the two-year history of Quiz Bowl is the continuing dominance of Minnesota ("You'd never expect a Midwestern school to keep knocking off these Eastern colleges"). Last season the Gophers won eight straight before being upset by Brown-Pembroke. This year, after tying their first match with Georgetown, and winning by a narrow margin the second time they met, the Minnesotans have won twelve...
...whole thing had the worst of beginnings. Those who went, went because it was the first game and it was already fall. If they didn't expect much of a game, they at least expected Harvard to win; after all, who had heard of the University of Massachusetts? It was the worst of beginnings because it was the worst of upsets...
...when a televiewer selects a program on WGBH that interests him, he can expect it to end with a bang, not a whimper. Commercial stations must lop off programs or stretch them out to fit their advertiser's wallets; WGBH hopes to let its programs time themselves. "They'll be like Lincoln's legs," the Director of Programs declares, "long enough to reach the ground...