Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat at. But you're as safe as if you were covering a Sunday-school picnic...
...shell has good power, and in time can expect to enter its races with confidence. Coolidge states, however, that the eight needs considerable improvement on its blade work, and that "though the boys are strong they are not rowing well together...
Burns is running for the Student Council on a Socialist ticket with full support of the Social Progressive Party. The Student Council rules prohibit any student running with the backing of an organization. "I expect to be disqualified by this rule," he added. "We are making a test case out of it, as we feel it is unfair that only independents are allowed to run," he explained...
...cynic comes to expect periodic abuses of the democratic process from such machine dominated groups as the Young Democratic and Republican Clubs, and notes without undue emotion the cries of corruption which inevitably follow the elections held by these organizations. When such charges are levelled, however, at elections supervised by the Student Council, even the most aloof become alarmed...
...George Aiken (R-Vt.) said that unless Dulles is able to resume full-time work by the foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva, May 11, "I would expect he would resign...