Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RiMSKY-KORSAKOV: SCHEHERAZADE (London). The music is properly aglow with Oriental romance, as one would expect from Leopold Stokowski and the London Symphony, but the news lies in the sound...
With some marines dug in on hills well beyond the outer defense perimeter that stretches some 20 miles around Danang, there was every prospect of action. "Obviously," said Karch, "the Viet Cong are going to probe us. We expect them, and we are ready...
Since 1840, when the Code Napoléon was enacted as France's basic civil law, married Frenchwomen have enjoyed all the legal privileges one might expect from the Emperor's opinion of them. Novelist George Sand watched in despair in the 19th century while her husband squandered her immense dowry and made her ask permission to spend the money she earned from her books and plays. A present-day French woman told her lawyer that her husband had just sold her store, and now wanted a divorce. What could she do? "Cry, madame, cry," she was advised...
George Buechner wrote Danton when he was 21, and with all the grandiosity one would expect of a young German fatalist and revolutionary. Pronouncements follow epigrams in endless, dulling sequence. In Mueller's translation, at least, it is hard to believe that the characters could be taking themselves seriously. There is almost no psychological exposition more subtle than Danton's announcement that he is bored with the Revolution, or Collot D'Herbois' mechanical callousness...
...recruiting with promises of $20,000-a-year junior partnerships in three or four years. On Wall Street, brokerage houses pay less than law firms, generally $6,000 for beginners; salaries normally rise about $1,000 a year, and by the time a man is 35 he can expect to be earning at least $20,000 in salary and bonus...