Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genteel matriarch. She projects a genuine grandeur, a sense that no matter what Isabel Lawton does she is somehow worthy of admiration. In cold fact Isabel Lawton is worthy of very little admiration, and Miss Anderson makes her much better worth watching than Mr. Lamkin had any right to expect...
From avuncular World Bank President Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they tried an "appeal to sentiment or exploitation of a strategic position in the international political lineup." But Black urged action by the haves on the "imaginative and constructive" U.S. proposal for Ida. "There is a real need," said Black-and the delegates had to look no farther than the side...
...problems of old age have been be clouded by misconceptions since ancient times. The psalmist who hymned "The days of our years are threescore years and ten" knew nothing of modern vital statistics; the average life expectancy of an Israelite baby in David's kingdom was probably no more than 30 years. Not until the individual had weathered all the hazards of gestation, birth, childhood illnesses, diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia could he expect to reach threescore...
...having taken up the challenge of infectious diseases (the greatest killers of the young down the ages) and conquered most of them, comes now to the challenge of the processes called "chronic diseases" -a term with an unfortunate implication of hopelessness. Today's medicine men neither seek nor expect miracles. They put no stock in parthenotherapy, such as David tried when he took the young Shunammite woman to his bed-though the idea won medical-intellectual backing in the 18th century, is now suggested obliquely by Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Neither have they any use for rejuvenators such...
...second quarter. Nicholas P. Veeder, president and chairman of Granite City Steel Co., which is operating at nearly 100% of capacity, estimated third-quarter earnings at just over $1 a share for the best quarter in the last five. Said Veeder: "By the end of 1959, we expect to be up to the rated capacity of 1,584,000 tons yearly predicted for the end of our current expansion program...