Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last three weeks I've been negotiating with the Russians at Geneva," said John Foster Dulles on a nationwide radio and television broadcast, "and that's quite a job. As I expect you know, this Geneva meeting didn't get us very far . . . In fact it didn't get us anywhere at all . . . Now the ex planation as I see it is this: the Soviet leaders appear to want certain results, but they are not yet willing to pay the price...
...story of the struggle for love and sympathy amid the discipline of a German girls' school, Maedchen has all the characters one would expect. At one extreme, there is the headmistress, who is the essence of rigidity, both in attitude and in bearing (she appears to be slightly rheumatic). At the other, there are the repressed girls, led by one especially revolutionary gamin. Between them are the two figures who bear the main stress of the struggle, the sensitive orphan who needs sympathy and the teacher who must endanger her position to give the girl the love she needs. This...
...happy that the doctors have given me at least a parole, if not a pardon, and I expect to be back at my accustomed duties, although they say I must ease my way into them and not bulldoze my way into them...
Aramburu, a general so distrusted by Perón that the strong man never even gave him a minor garrison command, is a crackdowner. He promptly renamed Admiral Rojas to the vice-presidency. Peronistas can now expect tough treatment...
...Britain's elite Pytchley Hunt, a horsy chap once superciliously told Gulbenkian that he had never before seen an orchid worn in the field. Gulbenkian's amiable squelch: "My dear sir, I expect this is the first time you have seen an Armenian out with the Pytchley!" *Bugle-voiced Comedienne Hutton "retired" forever a year ago, has since launched two comebacks...