Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the talk early in the term, in fact, dealt with possible difficulties Johnson and Speaker Ray-burn could expect to have in holding the rampant liberals of their large majority in line. The situation, from their point of view, seemed truly formidable. In the greatest landslide since 1936, the democrats gained 15 seats in the Senate and 47 in the House, giving them nearly a two thirds majority in each house, and it was confidently predicted that this preshadowed a new era of immoderate liberalism in Congress. What emerged, however, was far closer to moderate dullness...
...dispatched to fight in some 200 (out of 630) constituencies. The Liberals slugged hardest at the Tories' Suez failure and at "police state" colonial methods in Kenya and Nyasaland; they were also the only party campaigning for British membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real influence over the next government if the Tories and the Socialists wound up in a near draw. The real question was whether what votes they got in the marginal constituencies would...
...compacts cut deeply into the present low-priced three, Detroit dopesters expect that they will certainly be bad news to what is left of the ailing middle-priced market. Says Cole: "The middle-priced field is sitting there with a gun to its head." Some middle-priced dealers have already pulled the trigger. New Orleans' leading Buick seller, Stephens Buick Co., fortnight ago surrendered its franchise and switched to Chevy...
...about $1,800 list-will bite into the sales of regular U.S. cars, but are neither small enough nor economical enough to cut the sales of the fastest-selling smaller imports, which run about 10 ft. to 13 ft. and deliver in the $1,600 range. Foreign makers expect to benefit from Detroit's new emphasis on smallness; they hope to increase this year's exports of 600,000 cars to the U.S. to about 700,000 next year...
...avoid the "twin terrors of the pulpit" the minister must learn to combine what seems to be an obsolete past with the criteria of the present, Miller explained. Only then can he expect to find the point of his work again and be worthy of its challenge...