Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets muttered darkly of profiteers. Last week, as investigators combed the wreckage, Cornigliano suspended all its building contractors until it determined whether bad design, faulty materials or sabotage caused the disaster. All Italy was downcast save for the Reds, who crowed that this was only what one might expect of "The Cursed Foundry...
...expect all forty-eight states to revise their laws in accordance with a treaty and, independently of each other, come up with uniform revisions is wishful thinking. Indeed, a stumbling block of three quarters the size has kept Constitutional amendments to the minimum. Yet, it would be no less wishful thinking to expect any foreign power to negotiate anything with a country so tied and bound. At worst, necessary international dealings would be abolished; at best, routine matters would become equal in difficulty to negotiations with Russia over the atom bomb. This is not to speak of more important treaties...
...city hall, their secret was known to a milling crowd of fans jammed in the third-floor corridor. Newsmen and photographers kept the couple busy for half an hour. "Hey Joe," they shouted, "kiss her again!" (He did.) "How many children you going to have?" Joe: "We expect one; I guarantee that." Marilyn: "I'd like to have six." The ceremony, before Municipal Court Judge Charles Peery, lasted only three minutes. Then the bride & groom dashed unwittingly down a dead-end corridor, pushed their way back, finally drove off in Joe's blue Cadillac. Muttered Judge Peery glumly...
Everest, writes Planner Hunt, rises above an icefall resembling "a gigantic cascade . . . Almost, you might expect to hear the roar of that immense volume of foaming water . . . plunging down with terrifying power. But it has been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last...
...country has been experiencing a contraction of production and employment for the past six months, but he saw as upturn in the economy by the fall. The peak of production, he said, was reached last year when the output was over 372 billion dollars, but Slichter does not expect it to contract to less than 355 billion dollars...