Word: expect
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Yale plays differently, though, and so we knew what to expect. They run Mercein off Lawrence a lot. But as Thursday's practice started, it looked like I wouldn't get my wish. Joe Jurek, our starting right tackle, was still limping from a thigh bruise. If Jurek didn't start, I would shift from left tackle to right, leaving Steve Diamond, the sophomore, in the position he was accustomed...
Frei knew he could not expect to pass his entire program, so he pushed "urgently" for three measures to get things started. He wanted higher taxes on personal property, legislation to support the cleanup of slums in municipalities around the country, additional presidential powers that would help him govern. Congress has answered no to all three items...
...Shehan's elevation to the cardinalate was unexpected-there were Vatican observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate-other appointments were not. Some of Paul's red hats went to men who govern ancient European sees that have come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate...
...orchestra wonderful? Do you know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky, my Brahms?" All the same, Piatigorsky asks: "How is it that a man who never conducted or studied conducting is capable of giving an acceptable performance without warning and on the spur of the moment? No one can expect a comparable feat on any instrument...
Gregory thinks that Negroes in general have become so popular "that there aren't enough of us to go around." Some day soon, he says in his routine, "I expect to see a Hertz Rent-a-Negro." White employers, if they would hire Negroes at all, used to go for light-complexioned ones, he observes. "Now they want the blackest faces they can find, and they put them all up in the front of the office." Only the weather bureau, in his view, is behind the times. Gregory threatens to picket the place unless the next hurricane is named...