Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was burned on the floor of Congress. Most denunciations centered not on the story's facts but on the propriety of printing them. Challenging anybody to deny the facts, Manila Times Columnist Alejandro Roces wrote: "Unless we take a cold sober look at ourselves, we can expect only ruin and even more critical remarks...
Said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd: "I cannot imagine how they expect business to be done in this way ... to deliver a violent attack on the U.S." Said Rome's independent-center Momenta-Sera: "Everything shows Moscow's intention is to increase international tension in order to get the maximum from a top-level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful...
...expect the conference to take up arms against France, but we want diplomatic, political and material support...
...heavy emphasis on past civilizations constitute the best preparation for solving modern problems." French children, says he, are interested in Latin because it is similar to their own language, because it is used in Roman Catholic churches, and because Roman ruins arouse their curiosity, but "one cannot expect an American boy to have the same interest in Latin and European history...
...their eyes on heavy durable goods, especially steel and autos, found the picture still depressing. Operating at only 48.2% of capacity, steelmen revised their production figures for the year, now think 85 million tons, off 30 million tons, will be about the size of it for 1958, though they expect the worst to be over by Labor Day. Auto production last week was 33.1% less than last year, and General Motors announced wholesale shutdowns of its Fisher-body and Chevrolet assembly plants to help dealers trim their unsold stocks...