Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the rioters may have to take the consequences of their participation. If we have permission to hold a rally in the Square, that is fine; but when some of us start disconnecting trolley wires, pounding on police cars, attempting to overturn cars, and blocking traffic, we must expect the Cambridge police to attempt to disperse us before more damage is done. But how can they disperse a riot? To tell everyone to go home, or to reason with a crowd of college boys out to raise hell is futile. Possibly the only way to disperse an unruly...
After scoring the most successful coup of his tennis coaching career, you would expect Jack Barnaby to be quite content with his team. But despite last Wednesday's victory over Yale for the first time since he became coach in 1937, the ambidextrous racquets mentor now half-jokingly admits that he's a little worried about a letdown for the match coming up at Dartmouth this Saturday...
This assumes that those present were there expecting a riot, which was not the case last Thursday. The occasion then was an authorized demonstration in honor of a cartoonist, and the majority of the demonstrators had no interest in pulling trolley wires or over-turning automobiles. The rally became something of a riot only when the police arrived in force, and it is difficult to expect everyone present to scamper off quickly before the object of their interest had arrived. In this particular case, there was obviously no riot in the usual sense of that word, and the Mere Presence...
...annual conference of Britain's Library Association, Author-Theologian C. S. Lewis hada few words to say about the old controversy of fairy tales v. "realistic" stories: "What profess to be realistic stories for children are likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me. The school stories did . . . Some people contend that we must try to keep out of a child's mind the knowledge that he is born into a world...
...paradox of the profitable company being worth less than $400,000, and one with steady losses being touted as a "million dollar value," fascinated the Journal. "Almost any day now," it said editorially, "we expect to see an ad like this . . . EXPERIENCED EXECUTIVE. Over past five years has successfully lost $100,000 on labor and material costs and reduced sales by $200,000. Total 5-year loss personally achieved from all sources over $375,000. Available because I have done all I can with this company. Prefer company with conservative management needing shaking up. Substantial salary expected...