Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marble-walled Sverdlov Hall, he greeted reporters with a grin as broad as the arc of a peasant's scythe. Even his normally glum interpreters, press officers and sword-bearers were smilingly cordial. For questioners, Khrushchev had a full armory of chuckles, solemnities and playful jabs. Did he expect to address Congress? "I do not know whether the U.S. Congressmen want to listen to me . . ." When the A.P.'s Preston Grover asked if Eisenhower would be invited to visit Soviet missile bases, Khrushchev turned on him as if the reporter were some baneful survivor of a forgotten...
...Communist political techniques. Soustelle's war was spent in battling for the Gaullist cause not only against the Germans but also against Allied intelligence services, including rival French units backed by Britain and the U.S. When he returned to liberated Paris in 1944, he recalls, "I did not expect to be praised, but at least to be noticed." In a way he was: he was summoned before France's National Committee of Liberation and denounced by its Communist chairman as a traitor and a Fascist who had betrayed the Resistance and obstructed liberation. Says Soustelle: "It was like...
...Said Mclntire last week of Ike's invitation to Khrushchev: "We cannot expect Almighty God to help us in our struggle for survival when we court the chief spokesman of the devil, who repudiates...
...Corp. boosted profits to $1.76 per share, v. $1.45 in the first half last year. Second-half prospects, noted Sinclair Chairman P. C. Spencer, are even brighter. Said he: "In July gasoline prices began to strengthen appreciably, and if this trend can be maintained, it is reasonable to expect that the remainder of 1959 should continue to show improvement...
Uhlan blandly admits that his authors can expect little more than self-satisfaction out of having him publish their work. "All I offer is immortality,'' he says. "Most of the authors are over 70, and they know they'll get it soon...