Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. member of the Judiciary Committee. Moreover, the Johnson Administration was making an all-out effort on behalf of the bill. President Johnson himself demanded that he be informed, name by name, of the votes on amendments; members who seemed to be straying from the straight Administration line could expect to hear from the White House pronto. Three Justice Department lawyers stood on the sidelines, ready to provide replies to opposition arguments. The liberal Democratic Study Group, an informal organization of like-minded members, had its own 21-man whip system, successfully kept some 130 Northern liberals...
...case, Washington does not expect further trouble at the base." News Story, New York "Times...
Besides being the victim of discrimination in housing and hiring, the U.S. Negro was long written off as a second-class insurance risk. His life expectancy was low, his income meager, his dependability in paying premiums suspect. Stepping in over the years where white agents waivered, the U.S. Negro community gradually formed its own insurance companies, which now number about 60. With the Negro's per-capita income rising, white-run insurance companies are anxious to get some of his business. They can expect a real battle from the Durham-based North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the largest...
...collection of short stories; sycophantic women who have latched onto novelists to be part of the cultural whirl; legions of cultural snobs who fear nothing so much as being accused of having no taste; and a few perplexed commoners who actually try to read the book in question. "You expect to bite into juicy pulp," one confesses shamefacedly (and in secret) to a friend, "and you break your teeth on hard metal...
...France. There, to strengthen her position, she contrived a marriage between Beauharnais's son Alexander and her niece, Josephine, just turned 16. When Alexander met his bride on her arrival at Brest, he wrote cautiously to his father: "Mademoiselle will perhaps seem less pretty to you than you expect." She was, in fact, an awkward, unschooled girl from the colonies. Alexander tried, without success, to teach his wife to spell and to tutor her in history, but soon lost interest and was living away from home by the time their second child was born...