Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mormons today do not expect divine intervention in this sinful world before they have exhausted their own final resources. And 100 years after the Mormons' perilous trek to Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is far from being exhausted. In its self-made oasis on the Western desert, it is flourishing like a green bay tree...
Besides pelting the surface of the moon, the rocketeers expect to learn a great deal about the electromagnetic field around the earth, the physical and chemical characteristics of the outer atmosphere, interstellar radiation and aerodynamics...
...only did the demonstrators save Smith from a grave of his own digging, they put themselves and the organizations they represent in an unfavorable position. Any "liberal" group can expect to be branded Communistic at one time or another, but the zealots who heckled Smith into silence were practically asking for the red label. Their action gave Smith an opportunity to demonstrate dramatically that his Christian Nationalist Crusade is anti-Communist--something many people will count to be a virtue covering a multitude of sins...
...temptation when you get a little white space to become deafened by the thunder of your own thoughts. I've seen it happen to a lot of guys, and I'm not saying it can't happen to me. . . . Nineteen columns out of 20 I expect to be peddling that ever-lovin' popcorn and doing my old soft shoe dance. But every so often, when I feel like hollering, I'm going to stand up on my hind legs and holler. I'm not saying my palaverings rate being carved on the pyramids...
...back rather than just back-to-wall; this erroneous impression will in the long run not be helpful to England in its dealings with America. Again, it may be asking a little too much even of such a mature and understanding body of citizens as the British to expect that they can stand up longer under pessimism and reminders of their difficulties...