Word: expectants
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Beck added blandly that he was a "man of peace," and had no desire to revert to "the law of the jungle." He did not expect that other unions would "infringe on our jurisdiction." But he said, "if a union that should stick to clerks tries to get our warehousemen (a remark directed at the powerful C.I.O. Amalgamated Clothing Workers), we'll step in and organize the whole store to protect ourselves...
More Austerity. No backslapper, Marjolin was gaining the confidence of Congressmen last week by telling about his student days at Yale. He was honest enough to say that he does not expect Europe to be able to paddle its canoe by 1952, the year in which Marshall Plan aid is scheduled to end. Production in Europe is now almost as high as before the war, but Europe's plight is not solely due to the havoc of two wars and the fear of a third. It is partly due to a shift of economic forces (against Europe) which...
Called "Autobiography-2000 A.D.," the questionnaire asked students to predict what would happen to them in the next 50 years. Questions included, "How do you expect to die?" "What is the worst thing that will probably happen to you?" and "Do you expect to got divorced...
Congressional leaders expected that Acheson would get Senate approval after a lot of talk but not too much trouble (the Senate had confirmed him as Under Secretary by a vote of 69 to 1). Said ranking Republican Committee Member Arthur H. Vandenberg: he is a man of "wide experience in foreign affairs ... I expect the committee will fully explore his viewpoints...
...intended lines in the present rendition just can't lug their point across the footlights. But that still leaves enough laughs and satire and embarrassing encounters of the "Uh-oh, look who's here" type to amuse you for a couple of hours--so long as you don't expect to remember the play more than a week...