Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Dec. 17 account of the non-playing captainship of Mr. Frank Shields during the recent lawn tennis matches in Australia gave me much pleasure. I have long been accustomed to expect the more brilliant gambits from the younger people, and the junior nations...
...bring the total public debt to some $275 billion. Truman mildly asked Congress to vote him the $5 billion which Congress chopped off his tax request in the last session (and got a bipartisan, election-year roar of rejection from Capitol Hill). Then, as if he did not really expect new taxes, he took comfort from the theory that an ever-expanding economy will more than compensate for mounting deficits...
...populace, which, like all Eastern peoples, bristles with nationalistic pride and racial jealousies. Chief problem: winning over the 2,000,000 Chinese in Malaya, who control much of the colony's business but are denied political equality. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, recently returned from Malaya, says: "You cannot expect to overcome the emergency without the help of the civilian population [but] you cannot get the help of the civilian population without beginning to win the war." Gerald Templer, emphatically briefed by Churchill and Lyttelton on the political as well as the military hazards, will go to Malaya with more...
...union representative added that there had been no violence in Cambridge and that he did not expect any. He asserted that the trouble in Boston was caused by "goon squads" hired by the American Federation of Labor. The Checker Company meanwhile is using a "few drivers" to continue operating...
...usual, none of these bills could, if passed, catch anyone but the innocent. As usual, none of them pay any attention to protecting individual rights against abuses. And as usual, those who point out these faults can expect to be met with cries of "hairsplitting." In fact, the only unusual aspect of this legislation is that it proves the futility of appeasing red-baiters...