Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which a single policy covers everything from robbery to a ruined house. On the theory that lightning never strikes twice in the same place-or that investigators can catch it if it does-insurance companies have raised multiple-line business from $60 million to $1.6 billion in ten years, expect it to help them keep out of the clutches of catastrophe...
...antagonism between Maher and Curry was clear on Monday. Curry sat silently through most of the hearing, and only Maher could provoke him to visible anger. "When you took office in 1952," Maher asked accusingly, "did you expect you had a civil-service obligation to stay there forever?" Curry jumped to his feet, and gesturing angrily toward Maher, shouted his reply, concluding: "I let it be known that when I came to my 70th birthday, I would gladly walk out of office." There was, one feels, a fundamental irony, in Hayes's appeal to the other Councillors to avoid discussing...
...Harvard candidates have always been strong, and they were this year. It so happened that our committee in Massachusetts set other applicants above a second Harvard candidate. I expect this is what happened around the country. I hope so, because any effort to parcel the scholarships out among different colleges and universities would be utterly wrong. Erwin D. Canham, Secretary Mass. Selection Committee The Rhodes Scholarship
...hypocritically reformed worker, and Lawrence Pressman as Bill Walker, the unreformed bully, skillfully carry their roles as far as their director will let them. Surrounded by these fine performers, Joan White seems weak as Lady Britomart. She fails to convey the strength and self-importance that one should expect from the sole manager of a large household...
...time Lindsay became mayor it was unrealistic to expect that a settlement, considering so many factors previously disregarded, and satisfactory to all, could be hammered out before the strike deadline...