Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty dissatisfied, with the way the struggle had been going. He had an answer, though. Two-platoon football. "You just can't expect a kid to be sharp on both offense and defense without it. Who the hell does old Jordan think he is kidding with all this mummsey wummsey stuff? He wants it just a badly as the next fellow...
...Every nation has expressed itself on this theme with its own special brand of Satan lore, climaxed perhaps by the German Faust-legend. Beauty and the Devil, the latest restatement of the old tale, may be a corruption of previous interpretations, but it's probably just what one would expect from the French. Rene Clair's treatment of the story, at the Brattle this week, is as sparkling and stimulating to the audience as it is subversive to the tragic moral dilemma that earlier Fausts enacted...
Working out in a sweat-suit along the sidelines at yesterday's drill was center Jan Meyer, but Jordan does not expect the junior's back to recover completely this season. Meyer started the first three games for the varsity this year...
...expect the Democrats to gain in the House by 20 or 30 seats, and in the Senate by a much narrower margin," Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government stated yesterday. Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, also conceded Democratic control of the House, but called the senatorial outcome "a toss-up." Most professors expected all election breaks to favor the Democrats...
...potential were the mark of a good magazine, the Lampoon would at last satisfy the critics who monthly expect the publication finally to regain its legendary glory. For in the current issue J. F. Fletcher and cartoonists L. Draper Hill and P. M. Herrera display the talent necessary to revive an all-too dusty tradition of humor. But potential is not always interesting or amusing, and neither is the current issue...