Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homesick the minute he hit Korea. Around the sputtering Coleman lanterns in the bunker, on the long, dusty truck rides that bruised his bones, he talked of "The Big R" (rotation) and "The Little R" (rest and rehabilitation leave in Japan). He knew to the day when he could expect to go home -"if too much stuff doesn't hit the fan and use up all the replacements," or if the brass didn't "push the panic button" and freeze rotation for a while...
Italians, said the Premier, fully expect the promise to be kept. If it is not, he hinted, Italy may refuse to join EDC, and may even withdraw from NATO-a step that would knock the foundations from under U.S. strategy for a united, anti-Communist Western Europe...
...name, Washington widows heave and sigh . . . The darling of the Southland, has just about everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green: "If it's money you're after . . . he's Mr. Moneybags himself. But don't expect this 85-year-old tennis player to lavish his wealth on a mere woman. Rumor has it that when the Senator used to take his rich constituent, Mrs. Perle Mesta, out on the town, he called for her by streetcar." Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy (43): "The rough-and-ready type...
...Pietro Nenni, clever leader of the fellow-traveling Socialists (75 seats), De Gasperi had his longest talk. The two spoke with the intimate second-person "tu" a reminder of the days they spent together as wartime anti-Fascist refugees in the Vatican. Of course, said Nenni, he did not expect De Gasperi to denounce the North Atlantic pact, but was it necessary to show such "excessive zeal" in promoting it? De Gasperi asked if Nenni's Socialists are really as independent of Togliatti's Reds as they profess. Replied Nenni frankly: if the Communists were to take power...
...there were 190,000 combines on U.S. farms; now there are almost a million. The number of corn pickers has jumped from 110,000 to 588,000, hay balers from 25,000 to 240,000. Between 1940 and 1952, U.S. farmers bought $22.2 billion worth of machinery, and economists expect purchases to stabilize at around 8% of farm income, or an estimated $2.5 billion...