Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor from a little state." His appointment as Secretary of the Interior, he said, reminded him of the small boy who entered his pet pooch in a pedigreed dog show; when told he was sure to lose, the boy replied, "That's all right-I didn't expect him to win. I just wanted to enter him so he could meet a lot of nice dogs...
...actually old-style U.S. diplomacy, would avoid trying to bunch dissimilar allies. Of some, it would ask little and expect little; with others, it would go as far as necessity, opportunity and prudence suggest...
...last week announced from France that he would return "soon" to Viet Nam. This presumably indicated that the French expect Prime Minister Diem to fall in a few months, and are preparing to prop up Bao Dai again...
...about the kind of people [Mays] might get mixed up with. He'd have to live in Harlem, and believe me, that can be a bad place . . ." Why does the pride of New York have to live in Harlem? We who are about to be Supreme Court-martialed expect Yankees to show us the way (we don't even say d- Yankees any more). Suspect our Northern friends have too many irons in the fire, none of which...
...Publisher Shoriki had raised to himself. He opened a 436-ft. TV tower, one of the tallest structures in the city, equipped with an elevator so that sightseers can "get a view of Tokyo equal to the birds'." Said Publisher Shoriki matter-of-factly: "The people of Japan expect Shoriki to do things bigger and better than anyone else...