Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's trustees did not expect the 7,000-mile trip to pay for itself, and the final deficit is likely to be the expected one: close to $30,000. But they counted with confidence on making new friends for the orchestra-and new customers for the Boston's recordings...
...Asia will get about 30%, a larger share (about $1.7 billion) than ever before. This sum includes $400 million for Indo-China. representing about 40% of the cost of the Indo-Chinese war to France (although the French, cut down in Europe and bolstered in Indo-China, expect to come out with a lower MSA total than they got last year). ¶ Some $5,250,000,000 of the $5.8 billion will be spent for military hardware and other support. Economic aid (hitherto the prime concern of MSA and its predecessor, EGA) will be an indirect result of military buying...
...dozen mortars and 75 mm. cannon, but he has almost no ammunition. "We have done no plundering," he said. "We have really been fighting Communists." The general admits that his people levy "dues on visiting businessmen," but these are opium smugglers, he says offhandedly, and they expect...
Over & over again, Rommel pleaded with Hitler and Mussolini to send him gasoline and ammunition. At one point he noted sadly: "It is sometimes a misfortune to enjoy a certain military reputation. One knows one's own limits, but other people expect miracles, and set down a defeat to deliberate cussedness...
...general de-emphasis, Hall remained in his office blithely placing teams like Army and Navy on the Eli schedule. It was Hall, who contracted roly-poly Herman Hickman, as Eli coach, and it was Hall who fully endorsed Herman's beating the bush for athletes. One usually does not expect a mere athletic director to run roughshod over the president of a huge university, but Hall seemed to think that Griswold ought to stick to matters of alumni, faculty, and educational policy. There was very little contact between the president's office and the athletic office. And when Hall wasn...