Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, in words Frenchmen hardly expect to hear these days, M'bida, the African, complained that Ramadier. the Frenchman, was trying to propel the Cameroons toward independence too rapidly. And with one of those sideswipes for which he had become notorious. M'bida declared: "I regret that in disavowing me, Mr. Ramadier furnished support-which I would like to believe was involuntary-to the agents of the Soviet Union...
...purely decorative post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. In a remarkable display of grace under fire, Britain's Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing a wintry smile and, progressively, two ripe tomatoes, a ghoulish facial paste...
...great authority and chilling wit": Barioni was indeed off key, but he was sharping, not flatting. "Here is a critic who heard a man singing too low when 3,000 people were ... in the Metropolitan Opera House hearing him singing too high . . . Now the first thing you would expect from a critic who draws pay on a newspaper is that he can tell the difference between up and down, because this is kind of germane to music...
...getting ready this week to take a look at a distinguished visitor who will also be its new president: Medievalist Charles Odegaard, 47, now dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. In choosing him after an 18-month search, the regents expect to change not only presidents but the face of their university...
ANDREA DORIA SUITS will be settled out of court for about $6,000,000. Two companies involved in 1956 sea disaster-Italian Line and Swedish American Line-have pared c-aims from original total of $116 million, expect to clean up most payments soon...