Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, however," Franck said, "that we can expect a lot of trouble from ice. Two of the lakes on the route are usually ice-bound the year round." Tyrell crossed them by waiting for a favorable wind to clear a channel along one shore, Franck added...
...accomplishments of the volunteers are limited, however, and eventually come face to face with the tremendous lack of trained hospital personnel and adequate physical facilities. These problems, which volunteers cannot expect to solve, are the subject of a recent report by the American Psychiatric Association on mental hospitals in Massachusetts. Despite the large appropriation for mental hospitals--about 15 cents of every Massachusetts tax dollar--the report condemned most of the 11 state hospitals for failing to meet minimal personnel and plant standards...
...Turin Sports Exhibition (May 2 5-June 19), Rome's Feast of St. Peter (June 29), Florence's May music festival, the Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera at the Caracalla Baths during June, July and August. For the first time this year Italians expect thousands of visitors to journey to beautiful but primitive southern Italy, where the lack of hotels has discouraged visits to such scenic spots as Piazza Armerina, Ischia, Positano. To make sunny southern Italy more comfortable, the government has built or renovated more than 100 hotels...
...Britain): "Anyone who prolongs scenes of violence is only doing so to titillate a small unhealthy section of the audience." More broadminded about sex than U.S. censors, Watkins long ago abandoned the taboo on picturing husbands and wives in bed together by commenting: "Where else would you expect them to sleep nights...
...Trotsky, making his maiden speech before unfriendly Deputies of the Soviet. "He did not expect any sympathy. And to make it worse-his cuff kept constantly shooting out of his sleeve and threatening to fall on the heads of his nearest listeners...