Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as they stick to such spendthrift habits, concluded Pinay, France should not expect the government to perform price-cutting miracles. "Ever since Henry IV,* all governments have broken their teeth on this problem [of prices]. The only solution would be an abundance of goods and the restoration of free competition. But things are not that simple, because the customer does not know how to defend himself. On the contrary, he favors high prices...
...Quite a few boys have already been around looking for aprtments, but we expect a real rush later on," the spokesman concluded...
...frequent target for extremist student groups. The far left-wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in "The Nation" by a former head of the University News Office who denounced Conant, but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances...
Dean Toepfer, summing up the admissions outlook, said, "We expect applications from women will stay pretty much on the same level for the next few years. We're perfectly happy with the present...
Kate was largely educated by private tutors. When she arrived at Bryn Mawr as a freshman, she knew neither what to do nor what to expect. To nerve herself for her first appearance in the dining room, she put on a flame-colored dress and made a queenly, solo entrance. In the stunned silence, an upperclassman said clearly: "Ah, conscious beauty!" It was months before Kate could bring herself to return to the dining room...