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Word: expectantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior at The Crimson, who happened to be my comp advisor. At first, he was really annoying. He seemed to expect so much from me, and I just didn't feel up to it. He would ask me what was wrong with me if I took a nap in the afternoon. (Sleeping a lot is, indeed, a common symptom of depression, but I didn't know that then...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Blase About First Year At Harvard | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...Although still in its infancy, the new science has already led to several discoveries. Says NSO's Harvey: "It looks as if the frequencies of the oscillating waves vary with the solar cycle: they decreased a bit as the sun went toward solar minimum. Now we expect them to increase again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fury on The Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...demand for more. Memorials are in progress to Korean War vets, to black Revolutionary War patriots, to women in military service, to law-enforcement heroes, to women in Viet Nam, to Francis Scott Key, to Kahlil Gibran (!). The hunger for memory etched in stone is exactly what one would expect from a culture that, having just now transcended paper and entered the radically ephemeral world of video, finds itself living in an ever moving pastless present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Disorders Of Memory | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...hilly, barely habitable patch that measures less than half a square mile. Abandoned more than a decade ago by native fisherfolk, the islet is teeming with life these days. Its new residents are Vietnamese boat people who, having fled their homeland and braved the dangers of the high seas, expect to make it the departure point for a better life elsewhere. More than 4,500 refugees vie for space in Tai A Chau's dozen crumbling huts and 50 tents, and the number keeps rising. Last week alone more than 700 boat people were sent to Tai A Chau. Each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees Closing the Doors | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...many others are not so sure. In fact, the newly elected Board President, former State Department official John C. Whitehead, has said that he does not expect divestment to come up on the Board agenda at all this year. And Whitehead, who has served on the Board for the past four years, probably has as good an understanding of how the Board works as anyone...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Toward Non-Issue Overseers | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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