Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official trip to look into state archives, but the loudest talkers in the party (five men, four wives) seemed more interested in real estate than records, and−if the truth were known−more interested in propaganda than real estate. Whether or not Fowler, Harris & Co. really expect to stir up the North, one thing is clear from their grins and chuckles as they talk about their scheme: they find the mere thought of it more delicious than red gravy or pecan...
...bosses were furious, astonished. Even victorious France and Britain were maintaining stiff controls to ration their meager austerity. From existing legal supplies each West German could expect to get one pair of shorts every 18 years, one pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay...
Since it does not expect a tough race from Dartmouth, the varsity is frankly looking ahead to the meet with Yale and Princeton one week from today...
...harriers have out-run five freshman and prep-school teams to win two dual meets, and they expect no trouble from Dartmouth in the 1 p.m. contest. Captain Robert Harrison and Jared Fitzgerald, the star runners so far, are rated first and second place scorers in the meet...
...American theatergoer has come, over the past few years, to expect a certain sexual frankness in every European film, and his expectations will again be realized if he goes to see the latest French-Italian export to Boston, Passionate Summer...