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Word: expect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toole job, shows he can handle second-rate dialogue with the best or them. Though McGoohan steals the picture, at least as far as the critics are concerned, I thought Rock Hudson was down-right competent as the submarine's Captain, look You know what you can expect from Rock Hudson...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Ice Station Zebra | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...found my first Dashiell Hammett book by accident. His writing comes in a form that most people don't expect to produce genius--the mystery. Books other than serious novels, it seems, don't "count" in people's minds; at least they aren't remembered and people, in their natural casual arrogance, think of the mystery as a second class literature...

Author: By Josh Freeman, | Title: Discovering Mysteries By Dashiell Hammett | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...Yeah," he said, "well, all kinds of things are going to happen to you that you have absolutely no way of controlling; but you can always say something that God didn't expect to hear...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The Cuckoo Clock in Kurt Vonnegut's Hell | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

Laird--intelligent, partisan, combative, behind-the-scenes boss of the House Republicans--probably agrees with observers who expect him to be the most powerful man in the Cabinet. Besides serving on the defense subcommittee, Laird was ranking GOP member on the House Appropriations HEW-Labor subcommittee. His strong views on urban problems, plus his intimate knowledge of legislative procedures, will probably cause him to try to influence the Administration's domestic and Congressional strategies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Bland Men | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...relatively free place, a place where the interchange of ideas is still possible, where no more force is needed to change a man's mind than the force of reason. And it is to these students that the rigidity of the administration was particularly galling, for they did not expect it. It is to these students that the repetition of "it's a rule...it's traditional" was seen as a shocking alternative to national dialogue. To see the physical presence of these students as an ultimatum was an awful misunderstanding on the part of the administration...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Politics of Ultimatum | 12/16/1968 | See Source »

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