Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old person today can expect to live another 14.1 years, but death strikes 1,519,000 times a year in the U.S. The biggest killers are heart disease (545,675) and cancer (215,525), both of them highest in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, lowest in New Mexico. Infant mortality (28.4 under a year old per 1,000 live births) is down from 47 in 1940, 99.9 in 1915. It is highest in New Mexico, lowest in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In a year 7,495 Americans are murdered (but the rate is lower than in any year since...
...said Bumblie, "I have just learned that I have inherited a preparatory school from my uncle." Headmaster Miller nodded his head, but did not show the least surprise: Forest rather expects its students to come from families with uncles who might own fashionable schools. "Very good of you to inform me, Youngs," aid Miller. "Congratulations." Christopher went on to explain that his new property was not so good or so large as Forest. It was small but respectable Marlborough College with 170 students and eleven masters. "I think I will be needing some time to go and look...
Since Miss Barri does not appear on the stage, the tradition is not totally violated. "Her scream is unmistakably feminine, though," Walter D. Littell '55, Chairman of the Show, said, "and I expect an avalanche of letters of protest from old grads when they find...
...their bidding. Their target was the Dixon-Yates power contract (TIME, Nov. 8), up for consideration before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. They could not prevent the signing of the contract, but they did threaten to nullify it next year. Announced Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "We expect that . . . the Dixon-Yates thing can be given a quiet burial...
...Latin American states meet next week in Rio de Janeiro for a conference that will have serious implications for the future relations between the U.S. and its neighbors. At issue is how much help, and what kind of help, the needy countries south of the border can expect from...