Word: expectant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...They can't expect freshmen to stop studying at 10 o'clock," commented Lizars. "I have to study sometimes five or six hours a night," he said, "and I can't get in more than three when I have to leave Lamont...
...increase their internal strife. Many 1952 Democratic voters stayed with the party out of fear that the Republicans would "take it away." No answer to that in words can possibly be so effective as an answer in facts. If the Republicans do not take it away, the Democrats may expect further losses in the 1954 congressional elections...
...past performances of these men are a guide, we can expect frightening things. First of all, there will be renewal of the un-American methods practiced by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Under the leadership of Democrat John Wood, the Committee has been efficient without being controversial as it has plodded through the country seeking Communists in labor movements. But things will be different now that Martin Dies is back in the House. It was Dies who originated the committee in the late thirties, in order, in his words, to "expose New Dealers and other subversives." Under his leadership...
Invited to sit at War Cabinet meetings in London, he swore and hammered the table for more action. When Prime Minister Herbert Asquith demurred, Hughes shouted: "I have a policy! You don't! If you expect me to sit like a stuffed dummy while there's a war to be won, you've picked the wrong man." Said Earl Balfour: "How I detest him!" But young Winston Churchill called him "a man of fire and comprehension, head and shoulders above his fellows...
Italy's annual invasion of Manhattan's art galleries was under way last week, and some of the early arrivals were a change from what the U.S. had come to expect. On view at one 57th Street gallery were 14 pleasantly light and digestible paintings by three modern artists which were as different from the familiar abstractions as red wine from white. The three...