Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services in a single network of "contact offices." Aware that such devices make West Germany best able of all Western nations to match the techniques of Soviet state capitalism in the Middle East, West Germany's canny traders expect to go on giving the Soviet-bloc nations a hard run for their money -and Western competitors an even harder run for theirs...
Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
...premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject? Said Division Head Arthur Ripley: "We want her to tell our students what they can expect when they get into the motion-picture world...
...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
...should, however, be just as clear that the accomplishments of the Democratic senators will be of a limited nature. The Department of State cannot shift to the Capitol and it would be foolish to expect any major changes in American policy, if only because on most issues there is only a limited amount of basic disagreement...