Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, he asked: "How many of you would recommend tomorrow a tax in crease for the purpose of restraining our economy? Those of you that would, I wish you would raise your right hand." Not a hand went up. In that case, said Johnson, he would expect them to defer, stretch out or abandon at least $6 billion of a total of $60 billion in planned capital expenditures. Several agreed to try. Campbell Soup President Willam B. Murphy ordered aides to cut back on all capital expenditures except those that are "absolutely required," and not to be outsouped...
...held off so as to get himself in the position of being urged to ask for one. If he feels it necessary to act, all the talk has so thoroughly prepared Americans for a tax increase that, according to one poll, four of every five citizens fully expect one soon...
...Shoot them! Commie!" cried the gang. They surged forward, knocking some of the demonstrators to the ground and slugging and kicking them until the cops finally arrived to rescue them. Said a veteran police captain: "Anyone foolish enough to commit such an unpatriotic gesture in South Boston can only expect what these people got." Later, in court to face charges stemming from an earlier sit-in at the Boston Army Base, the protesters were found guilty of loitering. Nine of them began serving jail sentences rather than pay $20 fines; the other two plan appeals...
Well-Educated Watchmen. Such cynicism stems partly from students feeling that their education is put to little use by Communist societies, which tend to reserve the best jobs for party favorites. "They encourage us to study engineering and medicine," complains a young Pole, "and then they expect us to join a farming community and to make less money as a doctor than a common laborer. I didn't study ten years for that." A Czech student complained that university graduates are being "offered jobs as night watchmen-we have the best-educated night watchmen in the world...
...fifth grade's Mrs. Blanche Brack says film producers have been "horrified" at the way teachers have been "messing about with their creation." She prefers to show fragments of many films, repeatedly stopping the action to quiz the kids on what they just saw, what they expect next. She had her pupils draw up their own narration to a filmstrip on the "Causes of the Revolution" to replace the high-school level commentary that came with it. Her fifth-grade colleague, Eleanor Cohen, normally turns off movie sound tracks, delivers her own explanations, repeats film segments so that...