Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What kind of confidence," asked London's conservative Daily Sketch, "can Britain have in such naive tourists who wander happily into the spider's web and expect to tie a bow around his neck...
Other businessmen were talking in an equally optimistic vein. In Manhattan, a Dun & Bradstreet survey of 1,126 executives showed that some 48% expect an increase in net sales over 1953 during 1954's fourth quarter; only 22% forecast a sales drop. On Wall Street, the stock market reflected the businessmen's optimism. Aircraft stocks, which have led the market with a 75% rise in the past six months, climbed higher still. Six months ago, many a trader wondered if the Dow-Jones industrial average would ever hit 300. Last week the industrials pushed up 2.87 points...
...when a U.S. War Relief organization tried to feed her canned clam chowder. Said she: "I never thought that I would live to see the day when a chimpanzee earned more money than most humans and was sent on a grand tour. But then, what can you expect of a people who make soup out of shellfish and boiled milk...
...Against Pity. Colette's characters are sensitive to pain, but because they live according to the laws of what Chaucer calls "Merciles Beaute," they can never expect pity. The queen herself had so ordained it. "Suffering," said Colette, "is perhaps a childish business . . . It is very painful . . . But I am afraid [it] deserves no consideration whatsoever...
...group of his "friends," appalled by such weakness, staged a second March on Rome and cornered their cowering, unshaven chief in his palace. "What do you expect me to do with a corpse under my feet?" Mussolini wailed. "A fine head of a revolution, if you're afraid of a corpse!" bellowed an angry follower...