Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most one can say against the idea is that in the present belligerent mood of Congress it is idealistic. No one can expect a Congress which makes such a point of scrutinizing every expenditure for foreign aid to relinquish its control immediately. But UN Secretary-General Hammarskjold is very eager to get plans for such a pool of experts underway. If he can convince the State Department and if it can convince Capitol Hill, a valuable replacement for present unsatisfactory aid programs can be initiated...
...subway, the hash slinger in the window, the misplaced pop crooner in the jazz dives. His capacity for working over a performance or a recording is legendary. When things are going right, he has been known to record all night, until, as Songwriter Lord Burgess says, "you expect his liver to come up with the next note...
...cost of this program, said NASA Director Glennan, will be $485.3 million, and he warned Congress that future bills would be higher. "The cost of our space programs," he said, "will increase year by year. We expect that satellites will be widely used in meteorology-witness the Vanguard II cloud cover experiment-and in worldwide communications. The value of such advances will be counted in the billions of dollars...
...ordered bras upon the ladies. As the troupe's American manager protested publicly, he noted that only New York, of all the cities on the tour (the group has already played Boston and Philadelphia), was affronted by authenticity. After the U.S. tour ends, the African dancers expect to go back to their villages, where they hope to buy land with their ballet earnings and live untroubled by license commissioners...
...within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat of a strike or higher prices in July, some mills even began to ration short products on an informal basis. Steelmen expect the big demand to run through the second quarter at least, make it the biggest in steel's history...