Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Oxford, Eden soon moved to the "safe" Tory seat of Warwick and Leamington. He won it handily and has held it ever since, making his campaign headquarters in famed old Warwick Castle. The dignity, dullness and mastery of the commonplace that Britons expect of their M.P.s came to him naturally; soon he was possessed of that mysterious but vital quality which M.P.s call "a sense of the House...
Under his benevolent dictatorship, the Trib's 4,700 well-paid employees learned to expect from their boss the best in office housing and printing equipment. He even provided for his staff in case of an atomic attack, set aside a deep basement of Tribune Tower as a bombproof shelter stocked with cans of pineapple. Characteristically, he announced: "The best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...East Germany, they tell of a Soviet inspecting team visiting an East German factory. The manager proudly declared production had gone up'from 20,000 units in 1950 to more than 200,000 last year, "and we expect to continue the increase in the years to come." "That's fine," said the inspectors. "What do you produce?" Answered the manager: "Metal plates that say, 'Elevator out of order...
...most sinful city in Great Britain." Compared with Chicago, Glasgow's crime statistics make it seem like a haven of peace, but in its twisted cobblestone alleys and dingy, Dickensian slums lurk hundreds of drunks, thugs and pickpockets. London's Sunday Pictorial warned Graham what to expect: "These thugs prefer the knife and the knuckleduster to Christ and crusaders...
...week's end Fulbright seemed relieved that the first phase of his "friendly study" had ended. He conceded that he had turned up "no major abuses,'' puzzled some businessmen by adding: "I didn't expect to find any." Although Fulbright can resume hearings in the next fortnight or issue some kind of face-saving report, old Washington hands thought he would be happy to adjourn his investigation indefinitely. Democrats know the study is, at best, doing them no good. At worst. if the market skidded or business turned down, Democrats would be blamed...