Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Saudek there is no reason to expect improvement in commercial television. He said the three major networks now provide only a game of "electronic hopscotch," with channel-hoppers discovering as little variety as they would among three rock-and-roll stations. But prospects for change seem dim, since the networks are making money, he said...
Chaplin adhered to the philosophy of film-making he created, long after it had been abandoned by the mainstream. But this doesn't make his art old fashioned. A Countess From Hong Kong is modern cinema, though not, perhaps, what we have come to expect from modern cinema. Take the new Chaplin film on its own terms; contrary to all those patronizing critics, the old man hasn't really lost his touch, and Countess is a glorious romance...
...upturn was what put Washington in a cherry-blossom mood. "I thought the figures would be good," said Assistant Commerce Secretary William Shaw. "I just didn't expect them to be that good." Even April sales of autos showed a sharp increase for the first ten days of this month. Chrysler reported a 25% rise, struggling American Motors had an 8% gain, and General Motors improved sales by 5%. Only Ford was still off with a 9% decline from last year. "People," said Pontiac General Sales Manager Thomas L. King, "walk into showrooms now in a buying rather than...
...weather -- all the lousy sleet and rain and snow and cold and wet -- has hurt the golf team, and captain Brian McGuinn and his crew simply don't know what to expect when they tee the ball up tomorrow at Pleasant Valley Country Club and take big swipes at it with their drivers...
...identifying with "doves," the civil rights movement--which will always need moderate white support--must be selective. This is not to say that Negroes should abandon forever the notion of backing a third party if Johnson continues on his present course in Vietnam. But no third party can expect much influence in upcoming elections unless its rher ric is vaguely comprehensible to the party in the middle...