Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter where a man stands in Korea he can see a mountain. The Koreans say: "You cannot sit in the valley and see the new moon set." Last week, in Seoul, Korea's aging new President Syngman Rhee made the same point with another proverb: "You cannot expect to lift a heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed...
...taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices; 3) resume payments on U.S. investments in Argentina. Because Europe and the U.S. expect bumper crops this year, EGA can get along without Argentine produce...
...going to get the break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty knew that it was a part for an actress (it won Anne Baxter an Oscar) and not for her. She coolly refused it. "People would expect me to end up as a mermaid and rise with seaweed in my hair," she said, "and that wouldn't be very good for your picture, would...
...Betty knows perfectly well what she can do, and she knows what her fans expect of her. It has been said that the Grable legend is so secure that she could play an entire picture in an iron lung (Technicolored, of course) and send her admirers away happy. This might be true, provided she could remain her buoyant blonde self, complete with legs. When she tried to hide behind long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others...
...days before the Western Open, Ben Hogan played a practice round at Buffalo's Brookfield Country Club. After measuring the power of the opposition, and his own fatigue after 18 tournaments in 1948, he said gloomily, "This one I don't expect...