Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...events which we know, seems to me rather misplaced, particularly on the day after the unity of action of the German workers was shattered by the fire of Soviet cannons . . . The working people of France and all the workers of the world will know henceforth the fate they can expect and the liberties which are reserved to them in the regime you praise . . . if, unhappily, they allow themselves to be deceived by your demagogy and your lies . . . When individual gallows are not enough, the tanks are brought...
...48th annual convention of the Lithographers National Association, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen explained why he always speaks without notes or manuscript: "An old Irish lady, watching a bishop read his sermon, once asked, 'If he can't remember it, how does he expect...
...yourself a flock of listeners who accept you as one of the family and, therefore, cheer you when you are good and, in turn, pass over your faults because they expect them...
Vienna had heard of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, but it did not expect that a voice which had pleased the Met would necessarily be good enough to please Vienna. The Viennese suspended judgment when they heard that an American soprano named Eleanor Steber, born in Wheeling, W. Va., was coming to town for a lead role in their June music festival. Soprano Steber, making the first continental tour of her career, suspended judgment, too. By last week she was the bit of Vienna...
Reaction on the part of TIME and Americans generally to the Churchill-Attlee speeches [TIME, May 25; June 8] is astonishing. The U.S. has [always had] the largest commitment in Korea and the loudest voice in the formation of policy. But Americans seem to expect Britain and other nations to place troops at the disposal of American commanders-to make their troops instruments of American policy-and yet to withhold all comment on that policy. Satellitism, surely! Face it: either regard the Korean war as an American venture ... or else regard it as a U.N. affair and stop being...