Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong for the free nations of the world to recognize Chiang Kai-shek's government? A: "Surely, you don't expect me to be rude to anybody...
Says Siles: "Inflation is a fire that is burning down our house. Stabilization will save us from the fire. But do not expect, amigos, to saunter out of the house wearing a new suit and smoking a cigarette. We will be lucky...
American realism reached another early peak in dashing, snuff-snuffling Gilbert Stuart. Once, when a customer complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the master snapped: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...
...Best I Can." It is a late inning in the game for Robinson, and the Giants can hardly expect him to do as much for them. But he has a lot of ball games still in him (the Giants hope he will play regular first base, to replace a drafted rookie) as well as one of the best clutch-hitting faculties in baseball and a healthy desire to keep his $33,000-a-year salary coming in. "Naturally I'm. disappointed to leave the Dodgers," said Robby last week, in quiet amendment to his onetime vow that he would...
...slack ing off and color is "the booster charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking about television signals which span the globe. My subject then will be: The World-in Color...