Word: expect
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Harvard's chances this weekend are admittedly not very good. In addition to strong Eastern teams from Middle bury and Dartmouth, the Crimson cannot realistically expect to best such Western powers as Wyoming. Washington, Western State College, and Denver, the defending champion...
...received prestigious civil liberties awards in New York and Los Angeles--and death threats from the sheriff's office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His parents began to receive endless insults from town folk and economic intimidation from local grocers. Finally, early last year, the Jackson District Attorney told him to expect "unlimited jailings" upon returning to the state...
...conclusion, then," it said, "is that the aim of education should be to prepare an individual to become an expect both in some particular vocation or art and in the general art of the free man and the citizen. Thus the two kinds of education (general and special) once given to different social classes must be given together to all alike...
Perhaps the greatest danger of growing up is that people expect you to continue acting like a grownup once you have shown you are capable of it. The Congress, after handling the tax cut with some maturity and voting a stout civil rights bill decisively through the House, has acted quickly to restore its previous image and disappoint anyone expecting responsible conduct throughout the rest of the session...
This is clear, forceful writing. As a short story, "Scratch" is a failure, but no one can realistically expect perfection from undergraduate writers. The technical side of writing can be learned, but Goodwin has the one necessary endowment of a developing author--a facility with words, an entertaining style. It is the lack of this attribute which makes the rest of the Lion Rampant a failure...