Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashioned horse trade: Reed would move the social-security bill out of his committee; the Administration would ease up, for the present, on its trade bill demands. With that it was clear that a one-year extension of the present reciprocal trade program is the best the Administration can expect to get out of Dan Reed's committee and the 83rd Congress...
...Their opinions, whether the legislation involves their own jobs or someone else's, must be limited to determining the legislature's intention, and not what they happen to think of the measure. Whether this detached attitude toward legislation is always possible may be doubtful, but the least one can expect is a single-minded effort on the part of the judges to acquire...
...nice evenings, Donald Howard, 25, his wife and two small children knew what to expect: the neighbors came around to throw taunts and rocks, to riot and run rampage. The Howards are Negroes, the first to move into the Trumbull Park public housing project on Chicago's South Side. Ten other Negro families moved in later, but the Howards bore the brunt of racial hate...
...these casual young men in slacks and sport shirts became Dienbienphu's lifeline, averaging 30 missions a day, dropping more than 8,500 tons of supplies, dodging the flak with equanimity ("When you are incited to a war, you expect to get shot...
...church that proclaims from the housetops that contraception is always against the law of God will naturally arouse the fierce antagonism of those who practice contraception and deem themselves virtuous when they do. As American culture becomes more secularized and further cut off from ,its Christian roots, we can expect this kind of antagonism to increase . . . framed in political rather than in theological terms, if only because theology has become largely meaningless...