Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smoke from incense and frying vegetables replaces the musty stuffiness one would expect to find in a 115-year-old brownstone. The resulting atmosphere is enhanced by the rhythm set by devotees in far-off rooms ,clanging kartals and pittering mrdrungas...
...still hoped for that last flash of brilliance that I had come to expect from you, and you almost acquiesced. Those hot-shots came to town and for the first two periods you brought back the good mems. The crowd was rabid and you skated like a dream to a 3-0 lead...
...best possible reaction we can expect from the U.S. and Britain now is acknowledgment of what we have achieved here. We have overcome the first major obstacle. This indicates we are clearly on our way to our objective. We should get now what we were offered under the proposals which Dr. Kissinger brought here more than a year ago. We were given an undertaking that if we accepted that plan, there would be an immediate removal of sanctions and a cessation of terrorism. Dr. Kissinger was sufficiently straightforward to say to me that he believed they could guarantee...
Executives of oil companies, which paid $1.13 billion to the Government for leases 18 months ago, were exhilarated. Reason: while they do not expect to strike another Spindletop or North Slope, the industry has known for years that substantial reserves were available off the East Coast. With the price of new oil virtually deregulated, those finds have become all the more desirable. Though the Supreme Court decision set no precedent, the oilmen hope it may move other courts to rule in their favor in a case involving those lease tracts in the Georges Bank area, 100 miles southeast of Nantucket...
...Desaulniers played superb in a super match," Harvard coach Dave Fish said last night. "We didn't expect to do this well," Fish added. The game scores of Desaulnier's sweep were...