Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baptism aged a year or even 18 months. This is entirely wrong and contrary to the church's teaching." So, in his parish bulletin, writes the Rev. Horace Willson, Anglican rector of St. Mary's Church of Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. "It is only reasonable to expect a child twelve months of age to be frightened and resist the priest's attempts to pour water over its head. Some of the recent administrations could be likened to an all-in wrestling match, with the priest applying all the holds possible. The dignity of the service...
...Actors' Company production of Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding is, as the former ventures of this group have led us to expect, careful and competent. But for some reason, this present effort fails to catch fire as it might...
Seaton does not expect very much from such measures. Says he: "The presence of humans, in a system containing high-speed electronic computers and highspeed, accurate communications, is quite inhibiting. Every means possible should be employed to eliminate humans in the data-processing chain." But Engineer Seaton feels that humans, however fallible, still have their uses. "The human brain," he concedes, "is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." He favors "reserving to humans the unusual problems of judgment, moral and philosophical balances...
Despite President Shanks's clear optimism, it was still hard for most businessmen to see signs of an early upturn. Steelmen themselves, whose plants operated at less than 60% of capacity throughout much of January, expect no improvement in February. Detroit's worried auto men reported that January production of 489,357 units was down 8.5% from December and 23.7% lower than January 1957. As business cut back buying, the Federal Reserve announced that commercial and industrial loans in 94 major cities tumbled another $218 million for the week, making a total $1.8 billion reduction since...
...ethical system. As the authors put it: "We cannot [unlike Marx and Engels] exhort them to engage in violence, and to do so without fear because they have nothing to lose but their chains . . . Men who think they already have all the liberty and justice they can expect . . . can only be asked to think again...