Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close still left the industrial average some distance from mid-May's all-time high of 939.62, and few brokers expect that it will get back there soon. Many of them look for the market to meet resistance when it reaches the 890 level. Reason: a lot of individual buyers are waiting for stocks to rise just a bit more before they sell out and take their profits. For those in a buying or switching mood, brokers are generally recommending some oil, airline and insurance stocks, which have sold off more sharply than the market as a whole...
John Adams was an erratic wrist, and so when a 28-page of his diary turned up Vermont, it was the sort of surprise that scholars editing The Papers for the last decade have come to expect...
...Welcome," he opened, "to 'Jack Paar and His Friends.' " It was virtually the only abrasive brush of the hour. "Some people," he cautioned, "expect a tearful farewell. Others expect I will take a few swings." But Jack held back both tears and hostilities. His "easy way out" was to limit his contribution to a few bridges of continuity-the rest of the show was a splice-up of some of his favorite vignettes from past seasons. There he was again as the bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring...
...delegate described the decision as "turning in our 'never' buttons." The convention also passed a resolution defining the church as "a confessional movement within the body of Christ rather than a denomination emphasizing institutional barriers of separation." Now that the ice is broken, many delegates expect that at its next convention in 1967, Missouri will be ready to consider membership in the Lutheran World Federation and, eventually, in the National and World Council of Churches...
...complain if a German cleaning woman fails to appear on the job; they get to work themselves and woo her back with flowers. In Tokyo, maids quit at 5:30 p.m. to attend night school, and carpenters, who now stop for two tea breaks a day instead of one, expect a free bottle of piping-hot sake when work ends...