Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists, however, the opening of the new range seemed an ideal opportunity to dramatize Japanese opposition to U.S. military bases. Agitators poured into the village, harping on the bordello shantytowns that had sprung up around other U.S. bases and the horrid fate that Uchinada's women could expect to suffer at the hands of the G.I.s. Soon sweating demonstrators, their heads wrapped in towels to indicate do-or-die determination, were marching along the fence, carrying signs which said: DON'T ASK QUESTIONS—GET...
...month the press had become so free that Gomulka, in alarm before the elections, tightened censorship. "The time has come," he warned Warsaw editors, "to find some good things to say. We'll self-criticize ourselves into self-liquidation." Despite Gomulka's election victory, newsmen do not expect him to lift press curbs for some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print in any other...
...chunks of the Pru's business from its Newark headquarters to regional offices in Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Toronto and Chicago. Said Shanks: "Our projects apparently stimulated other people to invest and press forward for a developing local economy. The same will be true in Boston. We expect more and more investments to go into New England to bring it the glory and prosperity it deserves...
...varsity fencing team will meet Trinity College this afternoon at Hartford, in their second meet of the season. The fencers, who defeated B.U. 22 to 5 this week, expect the match to be fairly easy...
Neither reaction, I think, is quite correct. As a considerate thinker, Wilson is quite conscious of the extremity of this position as stated. But he does not desire or expect a reaction of disgust from anyone interested in reading his essay in the first place; the dogmatic force of his statement creates resistance in the reader, who, in examining the idea for its real weaknesses, comes more fully to understand understand the author's meaning...