Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Bullet Holes. This "contagion of blood," as Italian Author Indro Montanelli called it, has understandably dismayed other nations, which despite their own long histories of violence have come to expect something better of the U.S. "Recourse to violence as a form of solving differences is one of the philosophic norms which the Yankees have spread with greatest efficacy throughout the world," lectured Barcelona's El Noticiero Universal, overlooking Spain's own sanguinary history. Foreign critics also tend to forget that there are many different forms of violence. A police state, which operates on the threat of violence...
...unspoken expectation of the veteran campaigners who traveled with Robert Francis Kennedy that death was always somewhere out there in the crowd. Occasionally an ordinary citizen, a Negro more often than not, gave voice to the same fear: They won't let him live. At the first word of the shooting, a reporter with Kennedy workers in San Francisco wrote in his notebook: They seemed almost to expect it. There is grief. But more, there is a kind of weird acceptance. Horrible to see. They've been through assassinations before...
...Thermatool, Inc., of New Rochelle, N.Y. (a subsidiary of AMF Co.), which between them have about 140 of their surrealistic creations (price range: $18,000 to $25,000) operating in plants at home and abroad. With the robots proving their worth in one industry after another, the two companies expect to have sold, rented or leased 5,000 of them...
...production manager at a consumer-products company with annual sales of $20 million stands to earn from $17,000 to $25,000 a year in Italy, $15,000 to $25,000 in France, not to mention such perquisites as a company car. The Briton in the same job can expect to pull down only half as much. The Briton does get more perks, including an entertainment allowance, housing assistance, a car, sometimes even a company endowment to help foot public-school bills...
...boys have increased sales from $500,000 to $10 million. Along the way, they have spread a string of nine motor inns and hotels through five New England states, grown from a mom-and-sons outfit to a company employing nearly 1,000 people. Next year they expect to reach $12 million in annual sales and expand their chain to some 2,000 rooms, thus surpassing ITT-owned Sheraton Hotel Corp. as New England's biggest innkeeper...