Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit. This, and the British election, made it a table for four: France's Faure, Britain's Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July...
...Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading charges to the various seaway ports. At that rate, the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes cities expect to get their money back fast when the seaway dream...
...have moved fastest towards mechanization have found their markets increasing. In the past eight years, the 28 largest producers-most of them exponents of mechanization-have boosted their output 45%, while total industry production slumped 38%. As the U.S. economy grows to meet the needs of expanding population, coalmen expect that the output of completely mechanized, low-cost mines will not only increase, but will be able to compete on nearly equal terms with...
There is another reason for Dylan Thomas' soaring popularity. Not only his verse but his life fitted in with what people always secretly expect of poets. It was boisterous, dissolute, sometimes repellent, often appealing, both tragic and gay: a mixture easily labeled "romantic." As much as his work, his life-and death -contributed to the burgeoning Dylan Thomas legend...
...reasons are not hard to find. Thomas returned to poetry what people used to expect of it: joy. His work was sometimes tortured and anguished. It could be obscure-not obscure in a deliberate, cultish manner, but in the sense that an excess of color can produce darkness. But far the larger part of his verse is ebullient, drenched with sight and sound, rich in haunting new language fed from old and sparkling springs...