Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Experts expect Carol Heiss of New York, runner-up in last year's world championship to give Miss Albright stiff competition in the free figures, but the Radcliffe junior's superiority in the compulsory school events seemed likely to bring her the title. Miss Albright, who lost the crown in 1952 when she fell late in the competition, said before leaving the United States that she also anticipated a very strong bid from Catherine Machado. the third United States entry...
...solo part inflects the words so poignantly as to enhance their individual meanings, spinning a melodic line of horizon-to-horizon dimensions. The vocal line almost never goes where ears accustomed to traditional melody expect it to go. But the effect is not selfconscious; before the work is over, the melody attains a sort of naturalness...
Actually the companies are already paying more than 50-50, the government pointed out; with tax adjustments, the present operators have lately been paying 56-44. As to the additional "advantages" Venezuela will expect, Perez Jimenez wants concessionaires to 1) refine new-found crude in Venezuela, 2) build "open cities" instead of company-town oil camps, and 3) conserve natural...
...nine years as coach at the gridiron-conscious University of Maryland, Big Jim Tatum saw his Terrapins cover themselves with glory: they won 71 games, lost only 13, played five bowl games. It was only natural, therefore, to expect that when Big Jim announced that he had accepted a $15,000 coaching job at the University of North Carolina, Maryland should be plunged in gloom. But the gloom was hardly universal-nor was there cheering at Chapel Hill. At both places, it seemed, students were showing distinct signs of growing up. Said Maryland's undergraduate Diamondback...
Another cautionary note came from the automakers, whose production race led 1955's spectacular economy. Traveling to New York to settle final details of the sale of Ford stock, Henry Ford II warned both professionals and amateurs not to expect a surefire bonanza when 10.2 million shares of the stock go on sale...