Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pipes described the thesis-writer's book-notes as "intelligently done" but criticized her bibliography on Bakunin as "less than I would expect from the competent undergraduate." Admitting that Miss Taunton "obviously knows how to use reference works," he pointed out that the bibliography includes such unimaginative entries as the Encyclopedia Britannia and fails to include Bakunin's own works or some of the foreign books...
...explain to anyone, or show him either, how he will react emotionally to Communist prisoner-handling methods . . . so how can you expect a man to harden himself to unusual conditions by watching instructors whip off a routine demonstration in which the student can take no part...
...death thrust him into the President's office. He did not even know that the U.S. was building an atomic bomb, which was then almost ready to use. As Vice President, Truman was inclined to look upon himself as a member of the legislative branch, who could not expect to share the confidences of the President. Explains Truman: "The President, by necessity, builds his own staff, and the Vice President remains an outsider, no matter how friendly the two may be. There are many reasons for this, but an important one is the fact that both the President...
...White: We expect, as I have already said, we expect to have fever-a little fever. And this is just according to Hoyle . . . We measured rectally. Until yesterday afternoon about 5, he had no fever above the top normal. But, as we expected yesterday afternoon late, he had a rectal temperature of 101.4. A rectal temperature is 1° higher, normally, than a mouth temperature, so that would be the equivalent of 100.4 by mouth. So that was the highest temperature...
...White: I would say that it is up to him. If he has a good recovery-if he has a good recovery-as we expect-I can't say we expect it yet, because we don't know enough. We have got to follow it a few days longer. If he has a good recovery and is able to resume a normal type of life-I can't answer that question. That...