Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not now. It happens every game. . . How can the cheerleaders expect us to sing if they do not set the example and lead us, telling us what the song is and helping us to recall the words. . . Robert H. Easton...
...added that the summer school training system, which last summer included 95 students, will also expand to an approximate total of 125 in 1956. The first training program was so satisfactory, he explained, that he did not expect to have trouble in finding extra students for the school...
...Winant program is not one which can expect the mass contribution which results from direct relief appeals or from the highly organized operations of professional fund-raising concerns. Its only hope for support is from those who are personally acquainted with its work and from a special group such as the Harvard student body, which can appraise the value of its activities and supply it with the funds and man-power it needs...
...Government. As the legal counsel to the Turkish government in the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 16), Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey has already taken a look at Turkey's economic affairs and will soon be busy in the U.S. studying what can be done about them. Turkey seems to expect that in return for his retainer-$150,000- Tom Dewey will be able to turn a loud no into a multimillion-dollar yes. But Dewey carefully cleared his plans with the State Department before taking on the assignment, and he was told that the best service he could render...
...Black Book. The body business, however, is one of the few in the U.S. today that are not booming. Though the U.S. birth rate has been fairly constant since 1900, the death rate has been cut in half. In 1888 an average undertaker could expect to handle almost 100 funerals in twelve months; nowadays, he is lucky to beat 60. Few funeral directors today are so unseemly as to chase an ambulance themselves, but most of them have "personal contacts" in hospitals...