Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect," growled Arkansas' Democratic Senator McClellan, "to develop in these hearings what may be a classic example of the use of force and violence in labor-management relation." John McClellan was as good as his word: last week his labor-investigating Senate committee heard testimony as fascinating as it was ugly about the ungentle art of teamster and building trades' union organizing in the industrial city of Scranton (pop. 127,600), hard by the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines...
...Contradict yourself, in order to live. You must remain broken up," wrote Lewis in 1917. His contempt for the sham he felt in Western Society led to, "Self. Self. One must rescue that sanity. Truth, duty--are insanity." And again, from the mouth of one of his characters, "Expect nothing out of my mouth, therefore, that has a pleasant sound. Look for nothing but descriptions out of a vision of a person who has given up hoping for Man, who is scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so much the contrary...
Khrushchev did not expect the West to believe that Soviet workers would gladly accept the loss of a theoretical 260 billion rubles on outstanding loans. Grunted Nikita: "Comrades, the capitalist-that shopkeeper who would slaughter his own father for a half-percent interest-will never believe that you consent to this of your own free will. He will read about it in the papers and say they have intimidated the workers and peasants." And in fact there were two reasons why the Soviet worker might not be wholly displeased with the state pig passed to him by Khrushchev...
...slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again on its own bottom, though we cannot expect to let them eat cake and have it too. A remarkably clear statement of plain fact, we would call it. and we can't understand how some people can have the guile to go about pretending they hadn't quite caught what it was the President said...
...film contains pathos, but not tragedy. The victims are squeezed in a vice of propriety and necessity for love, in a situation where propriety must control them. Colette unfortunately omitted any see-what-to-expect-of-secluded-girls'-schools moral, leaving just a story. While the characters are interesting only as general types in a unique plot Olivia'a story seems very real to one who has not first-hand experience...