Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three of Corey's competitors, however, strongly denied any connection between the price-cutting and Corey's entrance into the Square record distribution. "The cutting is all part of business and something everyone can expect to run into at one time or another. I've got no complaints," was the comment from Minute Man's owner, John Waumb. The other two stores expressed similar sentiments...
...Smoking has been tolerated in lecture and recitation rooms, students have been allowed to read newspapers during class, and sometimes assume such undignified positions as putting feet on other seats, DeVane wrote in a letter to all instructors and professors. "This must be stopped. I expect you to control your classrooms...
Truman well knew what to expect a couple of days later when the newsmen trooped into his weekly press conference. Here it comes, he cracked, as the first question was raised. Then, allowing himself to be directly quoted, he called off the guessing game...
Suffering from a touch of sciatica, terrible-tempered Sir Thomas Beecham arrived in California to conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, waggled his sharp tongue again at another music form: "There is no future in opera . . . Most operas are in the hands of grocers, so how can you expect good music? If I want to see pretty pictures, I go to the movies. If I want to hear orchestral music, I go to a symphony concert...
...Danny Wilson (Universal-International) pictures the rise of a brash but likable young crooner to the special fame that only bobbysoxers can bestow. Apart from romantic and melodramatic trimmings that it borrows elsewhere, the story cribs so freely from the career and personality of Frank Sinatra that fans may expect Ava Gardner to pop up in the last reel. What sharpens the illusion is the playing of Crooner Danny Wilson by Crooner Sinatra himself...