Word: expectants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artie had discovered that "it's necessary to give an audience some familiar points of reference before you can expect it to go along on new things." He thought a band made up just about like the one that had first won him fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
Even so, Ben does not expect to have Citation ready to roll until winter. Casually, Ben adds, "We'll need him for those big stakes in California." Ben could afford to be casual about that announcement, but to other horsemen with an eye on the $100000 Santa Anita Handicap and sundry $50,000 prizes, Ben's words were big, solemn news...
University officials expect a student body of 4950 after today's rush is over, the figure includes 1,120 freshmen-the smallest post-war class-and 234 returning upperclassmen who registered last week...
...ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...
...months as Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, no man to show his hand, has dropped a few hints of what Canada can expect from him during his five-year term as his country's leader. On Parliament Hill, top-level government men have already labeled him "the most efficient Prime Minister Canada ever had." He has speeded up the poky, 19th Century office routine of Mackenzie King. Decisions come down so fast that his aides often worry that St. Laurent is too hasty. Cracked one: "What Mr. King needed was an animator; what St. Laurent needs is a brake...