Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goalie Blair Torrey may rise up again this year to check the varsity hockey team's quest for the Pentagonal crown. Even without the fog shrouding Hobey Baker Rink, if Tiger Torrey is on, the Crimson can expect to have a very rough time at Princeton this afternoon...
...dialogue is dull and insipidly metaphorical. Taylor and Ava Gardner, who plays Guinevere, struggle gamely, but neither can reduce the heaviness of the material. Late in the film Queen Guinevere is sent to a nunnery. Miss Gardner shifts through this role with the same dexterity we would expect from Lily St. Cyr. Mel Ferrer, as King Arthur, spends the greater part of the film looking wide-eyed at people and ornaments about the palace. He is so obsequious one cannot help but wonder how he put over this Round Table idea in the first place. So far, Hollywood has proven...
...July quota is 24,000, and we expect to induct 28,000 men a month before the summer is over," McNamara continued. "To assume that a smaller defense role by the Army means the end of the draft," he contended, "omits many other important considerations...
...long distance telephone calls, the 15% levy on fountain pens. He would leave at their present rate the federal taxes on cigarettes (8? a package), gasoline (2? a gallon), automobiles (10% of the manufacturer's price) and whisky ($10.50 a proof gallon).* Joe Martin said he did not expect the administration to propose any excise tax changes, but he hoped the White House would not oppose the plan he outlined...
Many stockholders also opposed the plan. How did the company expect to modernize its plants and equipment, they asked, if virtually all the cash was to be used to retire preferred stock? They charged that the company was1) shutting down some of its more efficient mills and keeping the less efficient and 2) keeping six mills that averaged about 60 looms apiece, necessitating six resident managers, six maintenance crews, six tax bills, etc., to turn out as much as one of the mills to be closed. Stockholders' committees sprang up, and at least one aimed to take over...