Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to his North Carolina law practice, had resigned (that is, Royall's third letter of resignation had been accepted). Who would get the job? The President couldn't say. Would there be other changes in the top defense command? Harry Truman said he didn't expect any major ones. But, he hedged quickly, in Government there are always changes because it takes an iron man with an elephant hide, and the pay is not worth the ribbing he's got to take...
Kingman defended the settlement house as a neighborhood agency better fitted to grapple with family problems and told Lane, "I'm not worried about your survey because I don't expect to see a single provision of it enacted before...
...playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial plugs, and have therefore dropped to second place in programming. Listener reaction has been sharp: "The trouble is," says Program Director John Thornton, "that people expect a lot, and give nothing in return. When the Endowment Series was discontinued, we received over a thousand letters from our listeners. But if the deficit on the Series were divided among these people, it would have cost them around $75 a year apiece, and they might have seen...
Freshman tennis coach Corey Wynn doesn't expect too much trouble when his team meets the Brown freshmen here at 3:30 p.m. today...
...Second Tequila. So The Brave Bulls, Lea's first novel, is a war book of a kind that most critics forgot to expect. The Brave Bulls has nothing, ostensibly, to do with the war, but the sand of the bull ring in this book is also the sand of the Peleliu beaches; the black and powerful truth that fills the book is the truth of death that marines learned on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge...