Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Ike, too, and still expect to vote for him; but such unfair and belittling treatment of an exceedingly able and equally high-minded opponent must unfailingly create a strong underdog sentiment...
...Western world, the only interesting possibility in the congress is the chance of getting a slightly better look at the man who seems likely, some day, to hold the issue of war & peace in his pudgy fingers. There is no reason to expect that that chancy glance will be in any sense reassuring.-For no one in the Western world can honestly envision a dinner table at which it would be a pleasure to sit down with Georgy Malenkov. Even the nursery-rhyme liberals have given up hope in such fairy tales. If that metaphorical meeting ever does take place...
...reason for the changes is that automen expect to have a hard time selling all the cars they can make. They expect that dealers will have to boost trade-in allowances; by midsummer there may even be some price cuts...
...meeting in 1950, when stockholders objected to Avery's iron-fisted rule, it was Ball who sprang to the defense of the boss. "We know each of us is under a test," said Ball. "There are weaknesses in all of us, and we expect Mr. Avery to point them out to us ... But we are not working here in fear. We are working in a spirit exactly opposite that which is represented...
Although entries do not have to be postmarked until November 1, the Testing Service and Selective Service officials desire knowledge of how many applicants to expect, and stated that "it will be greatly to the sindent's advantage to file his application at once...