Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaves of absence as the blessing that leave-takers believe they are. Many a student has been frustrated while looking for courses in the catalogue, and leaves of absence can create administrative hassles for departments. Sidney Verba, professor of Government and chairman of the department, says that although administrators expect a certain number of leaves from the ordinary rotation of sabbaticals and research grants, the absences can sometimes cause a strain in the department's teaching program by reducing the variety of topics offered by the department Aside from those cases where a particular course is associated with a particular...
...Small children all share the common desire to spend just one summer back home in Missouri. "I don't expect I'd like it much," Byron admits, "but I'd sure like to see what it's like." Many children who inhabit the wheat belt have a secret desire to spend a summer roaming from state to state with the cutters. The Smalls each year employ 14 hired boys (including Byron). The members of the crew live in motel rooms, paid for by the Smalls, eat bountifully of the well-prepared home cooking around the tables...
First, though, Carter had to pay a visit to Plains. Returning to his home town in Georgia is no longer pure pleasure for the President. Local merchants, worried about a drop-off in the number of tourists who thronged the town a year ago, expect him to stroll the streets and attract crowds during his well-publicized trips home. So the President grinned his way along jammed sidewalks for the mandatory stops at various local stores. Jimmy also had to pay a visit to Cousin Hugh Carter, whose tattletale book about the family has dismayed several of its members...
Bates naturally dominates, but the rest of the cast also demonstrates the high competence of craft we have come to expect from "Masterpiece Theater...
...first priority. But it is not our only one. Important issues demand comment, and it is not in a newsman's nature to remain silent; it is therefore this newspaper's obligation, as any other's, to analyze and criticize the news that we report. We do not expect to be treated as the font of all wisdom, just as we do not treat anyone we cover as particularly omniscient. We certainly do not expect to serve as the mouthpiece of any individual group, other than ourselves; we are students with varying perspectives, not professional ideologues. And what we print...