Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration had a good reason to expect Democratic backing on the proposals discussed, and House Speaker-to-be Sam Rayburn emerged from the White House assuring newsmen that "no blood was spilled...
...time to feel uncomfortable, and think hard. And then they always mention the aspirate-bomb. Yet surely nothing has been more soothing to the nerves of the present generation than that bomb. At last, we feel, there is something truly final, something we can't be expected to do anything about. And since no one will ask our permission before using it, we can regard it with the polite calm with which we contemplate death in general: one doesn't expect to avoid it indefinitely and can't decently complain when it catches up with...
...Canadiens have not won an N.H.L. championship since 1947, but this year they devoutly expect to beat both the formidable Detroit Red Wings and the skilled but conservative Toronto Maple Leafs in the league standings and in the Stanley Cup (a sort of World Series of hockey). Boom-Boom himself is confident, and when victory is in sight, as he puts it eloquently, "Oh boy, then we hit it up. We eat good, we see a show, we have a big time. It's a great life. I love hockey...
...like proportions, made a fine, feline mehitabel; diminutive Baritone Jonathan Anderson made the best-voiced cock roach in history, and a vocal quartet called the Four Heatherstones supplied bacchanalian backgrounds. This spring Columbia Records will release an archy and mehitabel album, starring Carol Channing. But Kleinsinger and Darion expect the bulk of their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly seized on such short works as Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Tele phone and Kurt Weill's Down...
Favorable Battleground. Partnership protagonists in Washington expect to avoid the big error of the Marshall Plan-that of handing over U.S. aid on a government-to-government basis. As soon as the pumps are primed, partnership loans to governments would be quickly tapered off, and the building of dams and factories left to private capital, operating for profit. The partnership would also provide U.S. and European technicians, to teach Indians, Bolivians, Egyptians, how modern industry is run. U.S. experts believe that atomic-energy reactors might be used efficaciously to provide some of the power for industries in fuel-scarce areas...