Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the rule of his great friend Tito are due to be deported back to Yugoslavia soon. Chinese envoys, disguised as journalists, have already arrived in Addis Ababa in hopeful anticipation of Ethiopian diplomatic recognition of Red China. And some time next year, the Emperor has been warned to expect a visit from Communism's senior traveling salesman, Nikita Khrushchev himself...
Gripping the table to control his Irish temper, Jim Hagerty replied with unexpected docility that he "would expect" the forthcoming television chat of Eisenhower and Macmillan to include a report on the issues. When the program produced mostly generalizations,, newsmen looking for amplification found that Hagerty and the British spokesmen were "unavailable...
...Freudian theory, said Dr. Mowrer scornfully, "one would expect neurotic and psychotic individuals to have led exemplary, yea saintly lives. The fact is that they typically exhibit lives that have been disorderly and dishonest in extreme degree.'' And mental hospitals, he charged, are full of patients who have had insight therapy-to no avail...
...Sensing a good moment to strike the first blow, eleven nonoperating rail unions served notice on the nation's railroads that when the present three-year agreement expires on Oct. 31, they expect wage increases of11? (earlier the five operating unions demanded increases of 12-14%). But management showed that it is ready to stand as firm and united as the steelmakers against such demands. Under a group insurance plan, any railroad struck will have financial aid for as long as a year...
...Blue Angel (20th Century-Fox). "Could a man have a better reason for throwing his life away?" ask the big ads for this glossy U.S. remake of a 1930 German classic. The answer the admen clearly expect from every red-blooded male is: No, not when the "reason" is long-limbed May (rhymes with thigh) Britt, Hollywood's newest sex goddess. This is not the answer they are likely to get from anyone who saw Marlene Dietrich in the original Blue Angel...