Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Joe McCarthy last week predicted that the U.S. Senate will vote to censure him in the special session scheduled to begin next week. He had a typical McCarthy explanation: "I don't expect more than a very few Senators will go in there with an open mind." In the next breath, he showed that he has one of the closed minds. Said he: "I am not going to defend myself before the Senate. [I am going to] make a record so the American people will know what the Senate is doing...
Ward Autocrat. During his five-year reign, the people of Monaco have come to expect and to relish such tales of their Prince's Hemingwayward exploits. Like most European princelings of the present century, Rainier is a connoisseur of fast motorcars and dangerous living. Unlike his largely dispossessed royal counterparts, however, Rainier takes his ruling job seriously. He frequently seeks the advice and aid of wise Father Francis Tucker, his American-born court chaplain, and often drops in for lunch at Tucker's modest rectory. If the autocratic approach seems called for, Rainier can summon that...
...realize that such a large crowd was not expected, why we don't know. With the amount of publicity given to this lecture and the great acclaim recently given to Teynbee himself, it would seem logical to expect a greater crowd...
...expect similar treatment in the future? Gregory B. Stone '58 Edward B. Dunn '58 Wayno Emery...
...later, the head of the psychology department dropped a verbal bomb-shall when he said, "We Need More Men Like Heath." This comment came as a shock to most faculty and undergraduates. They naturally did not expect the head of Heath's department, which did not promote him, also to publicly praise him. The immediate implication was that Heath was begin fired for his criticism of the University, and not, as some had thought, for any incompetence...