Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continuing suspicions of his new Western benefactors, the Harmony mission has been held down to 28 officers and men, though the U.S. had hoped for a complement of 73. Its watch over the free U.S. arms is sharply limited. Harmony said he does not know, nor does he expect to know, what units of Tito's army finally receive the U.S. weapons which will help Communist Yugoslavia take its stand, alongside the free world, against the threat of Communist Stalin...
What constitutes importance, of course, must be left up to the committee involved, for it would be too much to expect committees to open wide their doors every time a Council member appeared on the steps of University Hall. Yet the line between importance and triviality is sharp enough, and good faith on each side should ensure a minimum of friction...
Supposedly, the Preliminary Study Card is used to tip off course instructors on how many students they can expect in their fall classes, and to give the Registrar's Office an inkling of how large a room each course needs. But so far it has been at best a faculty indicator. Comes the first meetings of fall courses and the Registrar is beseiged by lecturers, each frantic because his class is overflowing its assigned lecture halls. Actually, the enrollment of a year before is a more accurate guide to planning than the hasty and speculative decisions that appear...
...special U.S. mission was in Rio to talk over important development, loans, his administration decreed money-transfer regulations considered irksome to foreign investors. Acheson and his advisers believe it is high time to re-establish personal contacts between Vargas and top U.S. officials. The Secretary's visit, they expect, will open the way for a state visit by President Vargas to the U.S. later this year...
Very few men in '55 were worried by the prospect of the draft. Only a handful stated that they expect to be called by the armed forces before enrolling next fall...