Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter admitted, however, that such operations were "intensely interesting to those of an intellectual maturity below 16 years and two months," and that the first individual found "making a dangerous nuisance of himself can expect expulsion from the House...
Baltimore's big (1,200 membership), Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church announced that it had selected a co-pastor who was not a Methodist and did not expect him to change from his present denomination, Disciples of Christ...
...would like nothing better than to [find] on the New York Stock Exchange [securities] of waterworks in South America, electric light and power companies in the Middle East. [But] how can we expect [others] to amend their [restrictive] laws toward American capital, knowing that investment and investors at home are discriminated against and discouraged...
...State of the Union speech last January, President Truman said, "The people have a right to expect that the Congress and the President will work in the closest cooperation with one objective--the welfare of the people of this nation as a whole...
...Congress continually harped on its "mandate" from the people to curb labor unions and "halt the trend to socialism." But the mandate of the 1948 elections seems to have been trampled underfoot along with most of Truman's proposals. The people, as the President said, have a right to expect Congress to carry out the program which they, the people, have endorsed. The next session will be the 81st's last chance...