Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling that his campaign lacked spirit and a sense of direction. Last week, however, things seemed to be picking up. Ike, throwing off his reluctance to deal in personalities and political maneuver, came out slugging at the Taft organization, displayed some of the hard-hitting self-assurance that Americans expect of a leader...
...party issue on which he was prepared to stand in Chicago: the Eisenhower delegates from Texas must be seated at the convention. In Denver he had stated, no less clearly, the national-policy issue for which he was prepared to fight. Said one optimistic Eisenhower aide last week: "We expect to win the nomination and election on this issue...
...majority also believes that Communism means peace. French Reds cling to this idea so firmly that four out of five (78%) expect to remain neutral in case of a war between the U.S. and Russia. Most Communist voters admired Soviet Russia (69% actually believed that the standard of living of Russian workers is equal to or higher than their own), but at a distance. Asked how the party could improve its propaganda, many observed: "Less talk about the U.S.S.R...
...expect justice," said Emile Zola in 1897, at the height of his fame. "I know that I must disappear." So far as his literary popularity was concerned, the forecast was sound. After his death in 1902, his readers began dropping away. Between 1932 and 1952 not a single book about Zola was published in English. In the U.S., thanks to Actor Paul Muni's performance in a movie version of his life, Zola is stereotyped as an angry old Frenchman in a plug...
...Exposition Press, a Manhattan publishing house which issued 203 books last year, ranked sixth among U.S. publishers in number of new titles. None of its books sold widely, but Exposition's authors got a better shake than the history of vanity publishing gave them a right to expect...