Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
Adlai Stevenson, Unitarian: "Religious faith remains, in my opinion, our greatest national resource ... It is our protection against the moral confusion, which is too often the moral nihilism, of this age. The blight of moral relativism has not fallen destructively upon us ... The mass of our people expect of their public servants probity and decisive distinction between right and wrong in the discharge of their public responsibilities...
...hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates and higher packinghouse wages would make it impossible to pass on all of the wholesale drops. And ranchers themselves argued that demand is apt to go right on rising with the supply. The U.S., eating...
Conducting one of the most intensive button-holing efforts ever at University registrations, college political organizations expect to devote record time working for candidates in the next seven weeks...
Irving Marsh of the New York Herald Tribune described the Brown scandal in which fourteen players were ruled ineligible because of illegal aid. One reporter, who had spoken to Bruin Coach Alva Kelley told how jittery he was. "The man doesn't know where he stands or what to expect, he and the school knew nothing about this deal." They agreed Kelley ought to quit...