Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most other great hurricanes-1928's, for example, which killed 1,500 people around Florida's Lake Okeechobee-had caught the U.S. more or less unprepared. This time, the U.S. was as ready as it could expect to get for a hurricane...
Anger in Nanking. After Wedemeyer's blast at the Chinese Government (TIME, Sept. 15), many Chinese thought they knew just what to expect. Wrote Fei Hsiao-tung, sociology professor and one of China's sharpest political commentators: "We must not be offended because the U.S. has become indifferent to China. [But] we are worried for the U.S." Reported TIME'S Nanking correspondent...
Habaneras hoped that Army control would bring peace between the rival police factions. There was no guarantee. Said one Tro man: "Those who shoot people from behind cannot expect to die from shots from the front...
Broadway Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, Our Town) was not in the mood for love. "There's been a decline in the quality of writing," he told Columnist Ward Morehouse. "What do you expect, when Moss Hart can make $280,000 from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have...
Moody, Mad Thing. Jack Paar lives in an improbable little world of satire filled with musclebound lady wrestlers, bombproof subterranean love nests and amorous girl gym teachers. Political commentators in Paar scripts have great difficulty "predicting" that Friday will follow Thursday; small boys expect to be rewarded with refrigerators when they answer questions in history class. Because U.S. institutions are Paar's target, a Paar grammar school administration drums up business with radio commercials ("Children! Have you tried the seventh grade...