Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charter flights are operated by British Oversees Airways Corporation. Yesterday, a BOAC official explained that "you certainly wouldn't expect the British government to penalize one of its own firms...
...will expect to add some Fellows of the Institute as we go along," Miss Smith said yesterday...
...ludicrous conspirators meet with a baffling kind of sympathy. Pogo-helps them by adding his name to the blacklist, as do the other animals. Soon everybody is on it, except Mole, who begins to feel threatened. Pogo's gesture is typical, the kind of stintly, reasonable thing you would expect...
Taylor plans to travel to England, France, and Greece during his half-year leave of absence. "It's not primarily for research," Taylor said. "I expect to enjoy every minute...
...Prohibited. Over the years, droves of peasants have fled from the dry hinterland to the region's fertile seacoast. But no bounty is to be found there either. A few feudal landlords own virtually all the land, and the best the peasant can expect is a life as a sharecropper or tenant farmer. As a sharecropper, he gives the landlord one-third to one-half of everything he grows, usually must sell his share to his patrāo for 30% to 50% below market price. At the plantation store where he buys supplies, interest on credit runs...