Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fronds) and took a walk with him down the beach. As Sam left, he told reporters that the country had nothing to worry about. "I don't see anything for anyone to be scared about," he said. "If a major recession or depression comes-which I do not expect-it will not be justified by our economic situation but will be man-made." Nor did Texas' Sam, who is slated to be Speaker of the House, see any chance of a coalition of some Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans being able to stop Harry Truman's program...
Others were luckier. In Kansas, Mrs. D. O. Durr peered out of the snow-framed windows of her farmhouse and, like many other farm wives, knew what to expect. Soon refugees started straggling in from nearby highway No. 96-a couple with a three-months-old child, a 90-year-old man, stranded linemen. For two days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr...
Girls will learn that they are "dates" at Brown, but "drags" at Annapolis, that crew-cut Harvard men expect them to know what "catching a crab" means, and that at Dartmouth there are only three seasons: before, during and after winter. For girls on their way to Annapolis or West Point, Weekend gives full details on military protocol, and how to distinguish cadet first classmen by the stripes on their sleeves from the lowlier "cows" or "yearlings" (at the Point "You walk everywhere, spend your own money, and half the time you're not with your escort...
Paramount was slightly embarrassed by its sudden success: Buttons and Bows might be as cold as Constantinople by the time the movie is released at Christmas. But Tunesmiths Evans & Livingston hope to pocket $20,000 apiece from it. They have written another tune, My Own True Love, which they expect to be a hit, too, though the public has yet to hear it. That one, say Evans & Livingston, is "a sort of present-day I Love You Truly. You know, you can sing it in church...
...first two years, Wild Bill didn't really expect to win anything, but this season, he confesses, he couldn't stop hoping. Wild Bill swears Tech should have won the Oberlin game. That was the weekend the whole squad got food poisoning and had to keep trotting off & on the field, compelled by a force stronger than a coach's will. Tech lost...