Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigators grumbled about their meager counterpart allowance ($100 daily apiece), complained about their hotel rooms (de luxe), threatened to "make it tough" for any official who failed to come across with any of a variety of services they demanded. "If you don't give us the treatment we expect," announced one of them to a high U.S. official, "you're out. We'll take care of you when we get back to Washington." At one point, Investigator Johnson cabled then-SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther, demanded an airplane to fetch them for delivery at their next stop...
...potential of the world's most menacing army by showing that its colonial conscripts could no longer be relied upon. The Kremlin's current irresolution owes much to him. So does Communism's great loss of prestige around the world. Bulganin and Khrushchev, because of him, could not now expect to be received at Buckingham Palace or make the same kind of laughing-boy junket through Asia, and all over Western Europe, disillusioned Communist sympathizers turned away in nausea. Destroyed also was the 1984 fantasy that a whole generation could be taught to believe that wrong was right, or could...
...Call. Gabby was not told she had cancer, but knew it. She had courage to lend and, after one trying day, told her mother that she had looked worried, "and I don't like that. I expect you to go through all these things without breaking down." In delirium, the child cried out in a singsong voice: "The call is coming, the call is coming." It was prophetic. The convulsions began, and the bright spirit slowly burned away. Nothing was spared, for there even came a day when Gabby's blood count suddenly became normal; her liver improved...
...flailing into the battle of the waters. City officials declared they would rally the Great Lakes states to fight new diversion attempts. Moreover, they said, if Illinois seeks extension of the temporary increase, they would insist that Wisconsin's attorney general file objections with the court, and would expect the "wishy-washy Lake states," which did not resist the temporary diversion, to join the fight...
...labor barrel, was often forced to employ marginal-and yet highly paid-workers. In the long run, businessmen are sure they can solve the problems. They know that productivity rises unevenly, that money spent to increase efficiency takes time to show up in the statistics. Thus, they expect the huge spending in 1956 to give productivity a big boost in future years...