Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million...
...oblivion reserved for those no longer useful caught up with Tildy. His son-in-law, pudgy Victor Chornoky, recent minister to Egypt, was arrested on charges of treason and espionage. Tiny (5 ft. 4 in.), timorous Tildy, an ex-baron, an ex-Calvinist minister, said: "I can no longer expect the confidence of the Hungarian people, because of his [ Chornoky's] great crimes." Tildy resigned...
Only then did the fun begin. An excited crowd gathered before the house and grew by the minute. Half an hour after the polls closed, some of Duplessis' jubilant admirers barged in, woke him, told him that his personal election had been conceded. Said Duplessis: "What did you expect? The trouble with you is that you lack faith...
...first time in history, the U.S. woman can expect to reach the biblical age of threescore years and ten. On the basis of 1946 death rates, the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week, the average white woman's life expectancy is 70.3 years, that of white-men, 65.1.* The margin of difference between the races has been narrowing since 1900, but the average life span of non-whites is still much lower: for non-white women, 61 years; for non-white men, 57.5. General U.S. average is nearly 67 years, which is one year longer than...
...priest, Pat O'Brien is skillful, experienced, and excusably languid. The picture's attractiveness, such as it is, comes from good sets nicely photographed, and from its deeply old-fashioned story and general treatment. But that, in turn, becomes pretty hard to bear; you fully expect a ragamuffin, religiously moved, to whisper Hully Chee...