Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play, as you might expect, is in every way archtypically "absurd." Four characters with the unlikely names of Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell (the last two spend the entire evening in barrels) perform against a backdrop of webbed string, barrels, one chair and a ladder. The play itself describes the collapse of blind Hamm's strange world. The cause of the disaster, we gradually understand, is Hamm's conceit. He is, as his name suggests, the abstraction of Actor whose solipsism has reduced his world to a shelter-like setting of old age (his barreled parents, Nagg and Nell...
...particular, Coach Bill McCurdy will be able to tell just what he can expect from Aggrey Awori this year. Last year the former Ugandan Olympic sprinter set five University indoor records and was Heptagonal champion in both the 60-yard hurdles and the 60-yard dash...
...manufactures 500 cranes a year, exports them to 17 countries and has annual sales of $5,000,000. Bigger Liebherr, with crane sales of $20 million, turns out 2,000 cranes annually, has plants in Austria, France, Ireland and South Africa in addition to seven in Germany. Both companies expect business to rise handsomely as builders around the world discover the benefits of tower cranes. "The sky's the limit," says Lindenkranar President Elis Linden, discussing the height at which his products can work-but also describing their potentialities...
...Stars and Stripes were unfurled at Balboa (see map). Before long, a crowd of 150 Panamanian high school students appeared carrying Panama's national emblem. At that point, say U.S. officials, "there was no more trouble than you'd expect at a Yale-Princeton football game." The students were told to go home and headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans...
...course. But a girl who grows up in the Alps is likely to start skiing as soon as she can walk, and by the time she is ready for the Olympics, she bulges with muscles. Europeans have learned to live with such disappointments; they have even learned to expect them. So imagine their surprise last week when Europe's best got trounced by a slim-ankled snow bunny from Oregon who is undeniably a girl...