Word: expect
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Dishonesty & Slander. "In politics, the principle that 'anything goes,' simply because people are thought not to expect any high degree of honor in politics, is grossly wrong. We have to recover that sense of personal obligation on the part of the voter and that sense of public trust on the part of the elected official which give meaning to political life. Those who are selected for office by their fellow men are entrusted with grave responsibilities. They have been selected not for self-enrichment, but for conscientious public service. In their speech and in their actions they...
...dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles...
...with a $405 round-trip rate. The other airlines and the CAB want a $265 one-way fare and $477 roundtrip. The proposed rates would also cut 25% from the round-trip fare during the offseason months when travel is lighter. On all tourist flights the airlines expect to carry about one-third more passengers (e.g., 82 on a DC-6B, 60 on a Constellation), charge passengers for meals and do away with such frills as a free bar and free overnight bags...
...from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect me to be weird, but I refuse, and they're obviously disappointed." But on the printed page he is still as weird as Price and Arno are wonderful...
...than Churchillian lust for living hard in dangerous times could never be sure that the Prime Minister would take their human weaknesses for granted. In April, 1944 he radioed to the British ambassador to Greece: "You speak of living on the lid of a volcano. Wherever else do you expect to live in times like these...