Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, a little uncertain whether to expect fun or disaster, eagerly watched another one of those strange American tribal customs-the Republican National Convention. A corps of 45 foreign correspondents tried its baffled best to explain the proceedings to the folks back home. Wrote the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke: "The art of conveying to a European audience the rules of the convention game eludes us all. Like baseball or the twelve-bar blues, it is seemingly too fluid a thing to be grasped...
...Kalitinsky sounded hopeful, as if he had items of progress which he wished he could crow about. But he warned his listeners not to "expect to see an atomic-powered rocket taking off for the moon this year or next...
...Harrisburg. Said he flatly: "I have been saying for a solid year that I am not a candidate for anything and I'm not going to be. It has been suggested that I am anxious to be a Cabinet member in the next Administration. I do not expect to be. I will not be-and that is without reservation or qualification...
...conferences of non-Quaker groups which are held there. Trade unions have found the Quaker seclusion and quiet ideal for various types of meetings. They are welcomed, for many Friends are intensely concerned with labor problems, especially the necessity of achieving harmony between labor and management. Few expect the spiritual influence of Pendle Hill to be immediate or sensational; they are content to make a beginning. Nor are all Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated the Taft-Hartley Act. The harangues came through clearly...
Agriculture had predicted a good but unexciting harvest. Last week, totting up farmers' estimates after a month of moderate sun and providential rains, a whopping 75,000,000 bushels was added to the total. Barring bad weather, the Government said, farmers could expect a crop of 1,192,425,000 bushels, second only to last year's record 1,364,919,000 bushels...