Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major speech of his tour, the President declared that Federal projects like Bonneville make for decentralization of government, enlarged on the merits of "planning from the bottom up." Said he: "Under our laws the President submits to the Congress an annual budget-a budget which, by the way, we expect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year. . . . Instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments ... we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness...
...Before becoming a Senator I dropped the Klan. I have had nothing whatever to do with it since that time. I abandoned it. I completely discontinued any association with the organization. I have never resumed it and never expect to do so. At no meeting of any organization, social, political or fraternal, have I ever indicated the slightest departure from my steadfast faith in the unfettered right of every American to follow his conscience in the matter of religion...
Unless they can ring in a few home run hitters for the afternoon, the Crimson players don't expect too much. They are facing strong opposition, led by Disraeli, Abraham Sofaer, a spin bowler of recognized ability, who packs his cricket utensils with him when he travels with his company...
...what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff: "If I am ever kidnapped and I order you not to shoot and you obey my order, you won't be here next day. No matter what I tell you, you start shooting." Whalen telephoned the watch tower guards to expect trouble. When the convicts, taking Warden Larkin and the guards with them, reached the prison yard, the captive guards put up a fight. Convict knives flashed. From the watch towers ten or twelve rifle bullets whistled into the melee. When it ended, one guard and one convict lay dead...
...money and the avoidance of those checks on credit expansion which might prevent an abnormal rise in commodity prices. . . . If past experience in this country and abroad were still of any significance, and if our affairs were not in the hands of a genius of unparalleled resourcefulness, I should expect commodity prices to go up at least another 50% or so, with some zigzags in their course...