Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results, announced several days after the vote, also were accepted calmly (with the exception of minor monarchist outbreaks at Naples, Rome and Palermo). The Christian Democrats had won 207 seats in the 559-deputy assembly. They and lesser parties, their probable allies, could expect to control 275 seats. The Socialists got 116, the Communists...
LaGuerre is a good example of the kind of journalist it takes to do the kind of foreign political reporting you expect to get from TIME. He has an intimate knowledge of French politics; he also knows the American idiom. He spent his boyhood in San Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. He stayed there long enough to graduate from high school and to pick up an unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball. He completed his education in England and France and, as a private in the French army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued...
Ehrenburg, an untypical Russian, is a journalistic sophisticate who lived more than 20 years in Paris. He had an idea of what to expect in the South from reading Erskine Caldwell and William Faulkner...
...period in which orthodoxy was catching up with liberal thought, the liberals were advancing onward to new and sharper issues, and today the crucial issue about which they speak and think is that of supernaturalism v. naturalism, the issue of two worlds v. one, and, as you would expect, the Unitarian stress is again on the scientific outlook...
Runaway Allegory. Wherever he got his idea, Plato did not expect Atlantis to be taken literally. He meant it as an imaginary site for an ideal city, as described in his Republic. Men who came after began to accept Atlantis as fact. For 2,000 years the legend grew. Cultists built on it, explorers searched...