Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson immediately offered U.S. assistance, and Frei responded with a request for "flour, condensed milk for children, and vehicles to transport water." Yet Chile's President did not ask-or expect-a massive infusion of emergency funds. He intends to float a special bond issue at home to finance reconstruction, thus leaving the $1 billion national budget intact. "We cannot appeal to the world every four years to help us lift ourselves from the ground," he said. "We Chileans ourselves will raise the towns that were destroyed...
Ceylon's 10,600,000 people expect a good show during their national elections, and the proceedings often resemble a carnival as much as a contest. The biggest crowds last week gathered to hear the top rivals: Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, 48, the world's only woman Prime Minister, and bachelor Dudley Senanayake, 53, whose conservative United National Party was supported by breakaway members of Madame's Freedom Party...
...find a scriptwriter for their "shout," the Rosenblatts went all the way to Maryland's Prince Georges County News to hire away Editor John Bill Lunsford. And ever since Lunsford's arrival, Review readers have been peppered with the kind of stories that most newspaper subscribers expect from aggressive dailies, not slow-paced weeklies...
...Review's success can be measured by more than its fourfold increase in circulation (to 30,000) or the fact that the Rosenblatts expect to make a profit this fall, despite original expectations of running in the red for four years. It is even more significant that the weekly Review has made the morning Tribune and the afternoon Deseret News notice that they no longer monopolize the news in Salt Lake City...
...book written shortly before his death, M.I.T.'s Norbert Wiener, the "father of cybernation," said that "the reprobation attaching in former ages to the sin of sorcery attaches now in many minds to the speculations of modern cybernetics. The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence...