Word: expecta
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...business, but we are determined that it not turn into serious business. We devise a mock Napoleonic "N" with a laurel wreath around it for the neck of the bottle. On the label we poke fun at the usual corny hype on our competitors' bottles with Nomen Vide Optima Expecta ("See the Name, Expect the Best"), Tutto Naturale, and in place of a copyright notice, we have "Appellation Newman Controlee." As a spoof of businesses that tout their ancestry, our slogan is "Fine Foods Since February...
While College officials said they do not expecta dramatic rise in crime as a result of the plan,some said they were aware of an increased risk...
...force, Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
...Trade. Brezhnev's whirl wind courtship of Bonn had a plain purpose. He was after a massive influx of West German capital and technological assistance into the Soviet economy But Bonn was taken aback by the Soviet leader's unrealistic economic expecta tions and his tendency to wave away German political questions in order to dwell on industrial projects. German leaders said Brezhnev seemed to have little awareness of West Germany's role and economic obligations in the EEC. After a long session with West German businessmen, in which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge...
...readers will accept-or read-all of Toynbee; many will reject a great deal. But if the West, clinging to its steep cliff, wants a heartening message, one can be found in this "post-Christian" English historian. It is in the other, larger meaning of Amplexus expecta-that the West must cling to God, to a life that is always dangerous, and to man's constant, painful duty to choose between good and evil...