Word: expectant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cannot expect semieducated, insecure, bigoted people to select a representative better than themselves. If Mississippi were owned by another nation, we would declare it "underdeveloped," send it Point 4, and make vague promises of eventual self-determination...
What next can we expect from our kissing cousins, the English? Possibly another Makarios? Or more of this heinous, hogwash courtship of "K," "B" and Malenkov? Maybe it is high time for us to make a new inventory of our allies...
...difference between our system and the Communist system ... We tolerate and welcome differences of opinion . . . Goodness knows, we don't want any satellites." When free world countries get into disputes in which the U.S. is not directly involved, e.g., the Dutch-Indonesian row about New Guinea, "we expect to continue to take a position of neutrality...
...stir before the evening is over . . . A number comes during which the daring artist, stressing each syllable, gives out some high chest notes with a resonant fullness, an expression of heart-rending grief, and a beauty of tone that so far nothing had led one to expect. A petrified silence reigns in the house, people hold their breath, amazement and admiration are. blended in a mood akin to fear. There is, in fact, reason for fear until that extraordinary phrase comes to an end. . . -Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra...
...therefore, gentlemen, so far from pleading for my own sake, as one might expect, I plead for your sakes, that you may not offend about God's gift by condemning me. For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state...