Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mavericks in small conferences and, finally, in a record-breaking caucus attended by 201 House Republicans. Again & again, Martin pounded home some simple facts: Dwight Eisenhower is the party's great political asset and those who go against him on this key tax issue can hardly expect to ride his coattails this fall. The argument was persuasive; one by one most of the strays drifted back into the corral. When the vote came, the move for bigger exemptions went down, 210 to 204. Every G.O.P. Representative was either present or paired-a rare occurrence in the House-and only...
...some cases, the Communists have paid nominal rent or purchase prices, which may make seizure legally difficult or impossible. ¶ Readjustment of "cultural relations," meaning chiefly that if Russia wants to send soccer teams, lecturers, movie stars and other such emissaries of culture to Italy, then Italy will expect to have a chance to reciprocate. ¶ cleanup of Communist infiltration in the Italian theater and cinema. A recent press-agency survey showed that of the country's 14 leading film producers, four were Communists and four more fellow travelers. As of now, the Italian movie industry is a heavy...
...Iranian elections, it was all pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
...pressure and a temperature between 500° and 600° F. This is not high pressure or temperature for a coal-burning steam plant, but it is unusual for a nuclear reactor, and Dr. Smyth anticipates a certain amount of trouble. He does not expect that the plant will produce power at a competitive cost, but he hopes that in practical operation it will show how costs...
Officials expect that the reduction of the exchange funds will also eliminate programs which annually send students for a year of study in 18 Latin American Republics. It should also cut by more than one-third the number of foreign students who are now able to come to study in this country...