Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist China south of the Yangtze could not expect permanent peace with the Communist north. And it could not survive if the U.S. pursued toward it the same frigid policy that had helped ruin Chiang Kaishek. A free south China, however, would give Washington another chance to develop a positive policy before all Asia was lost...
...When the Wise Men received the divine revelation that the king of the Jews was born, they made straight for Jerusalem, for, of course, they expected to find him at the capital in a lordly castle and a golden chamber. Where else would common sense expect to find a king...
...work. When he isn't skiing, he is designing skis, ski boots and even goggles for skiers. He now spends half the year teaching at his own school in Portillo, Chile, hopes eventually to have a school of his own in the U.S. But he doesn't expect to convert the whole Western Hemisphere to the French method; his partisans claim more for his technique than he does himself. Says he dryly: "I do not pretend to have invented skiing...
What sort of snarling cat had got hold of the News's tongue? Well, Miss Hayworth had refused to be interviewed, and any celebrity who did that to the News could expect to be tabbed as looking pale and haggard. Reporters don't like to be snubbed, and have their own unpleasant ways of showing it. On the other hand, in Elsa Maxwell's column last week, "Rita, of course, looked beautiful." Elsa had not been snubbed; she had lunched with Rita...
...have been led to the surely unbiblical habit of speaking as though we had in the church a continuation of the incarnation of the Word of God. If that were so, then manifestly . . . enslaved mankind would have to expect its salvation from us -from our clear grasp of the world's historical situation, from the progress and action and hoped-for future triumphs of the church as the embodiment and representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took...