Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England should expect an unusually cold winter. Professor Charles F. Brooks '12, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory announced last night. Brooks bases his prediction on a formula revealed by Dr. Franz Baur, head of long range weather forecasting in Germany...
...scuffle was part of a deadly earnest battle between De Gasperi's government and its powerful Communist opposition (128 members). An election is coming with spring; the Demo-Christians expect to win by a hair (Italy is the only nation in Western Europe where the Communists have gained strength since 1948). Narrow margins might be tolerated in England, where the opposition is democratic; but could Italian democracy survive and effectively govern if the Communists really controlled Parliament...
...must receive at least $5,000 in the next few days if we are to be able to continue, and $10,000 by the end of next week. We ask that every reader-and we mean every reader-immediately send from five to ten dollars." The Worker could expect no help from its blood brother across the Atlantic, the London Daily Worker. For months it, too, has been appealing for money on Page One, may have to slim down to a single page, or fold altogether...
...businessmen want to be treated by the new Administration? Do they expect special privileges because so many worked for Eisenhower? Do they expect to benefit from the selection of businessmen in the Cabinet? To these questions, the nation got some statesmanlike answers from businessmen last week. They came at the Manhattan convention of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...continued Bradley, "now that kid really believes in me. Once they lose faith in Santa they're through. About a quarter of the mothers take their kids to see one Santa, and then bring them here to me. Then they expect the kid to believe, but what can I do? That's when they start pulling whiskers to find out the truth. But I don't have too many like that...