Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tapes and other records that they made do not look like much, but with careful analysis in the next few months a better picture of the Venusian atmosphere will be assembled. When the first space traveler from earth attempts to explore Venus, he will know much about what to expect, and for that he can thank winking Regulus so many trillion miles away...
...concert was light and enjoyable, but lacked some of the artistic polish that we shall expect from Martha Schlamme and Josh White, who will continue the Summer Folk Festival...
...Contact. Prime Minister Koirala is articulately Western in thought (his favorite author: French Novelist Albert Camus) and has an informal ability to get things done that is rare in inefficient Nepal. A political opponent says: "He keeps his word; that's what counts most." The Prime Minister can expect continuing help from India in money and technicians because Nepal, on the border of Tibet, is a strategic mountain barrier to Red Chinese expansion. The U.S. is supporting road-building projects, developing civil aviation, and setting up a radio communication net to bring Katmandu into verbal contact with the rest...
...midyear the booming U.S. economy was turning out goods and services at the rate of $479 billion a year and growing so rapidly that many Washington economists now expect it to pass the half-trillion mark before mid-1960. Behind this confidence was the economy's amazing expansion so far this year. Estimates last week of the growth that took place in the April-June quarter showed that the gross national product annual rate rose $12 billion over the first quarter, $5 billion more than expected. Added to a $14 billion gain in the January-March quarter, this made...
...Violation is sufficient; there need not be a completion ... on the part of the man"), of whether a doctor can or cannot "tell if a married woman has been raped." The Chicago police commissioner, at any rate, was so startled that he banned the film, and the moviemakers eagerly expect that other communities will follow suit...