Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whiz, TIME, how do you expect us little guys to pump gas all day and sleep well at night when we read about threats like that Romney character? Fire and brimstone on the Rambler! I say, "Man the gas pumps...
...Never give camellias; the heads fall off," cautions an official pamphlet issued to Tokyo's 23,000 policemen last week. "And never give sick people potted plants; their connotation of being rooted may make recipient think you expect him to be sick a long time...
Families of patients who have been in mental hospitals for a long time usually do not want them home, says Charles L. Rose in Mental Hygiene. On the social service staff of the VA Hospital in Bedford, Mass., Rose found from a survey that many relatives do not expect the hospital to effect a cure and really do not want it to-they regard it as a place of detention, not healing. They are more comfortable feeling that the case is hopeless: if the patient never improves, he can never be sent home where "there is no room...
...wisdom of ever inviting Opitz to speak at the Forum, and asked if there is "anything challenging here, anything of value." The Forum chairman then asked Adams about a speech on the "Uses of Diversity," in which the professor stated that in all academic and political areas, "we expect and promote a diversity, and even a conflict of interests and values." Adams replied that there are "degrees of relevance," and referred to "relevant diversity...
This year's donations figure may turn out to be "the worst in the history of the Harvard Blood Drive," Miss Lee Grace, Director of the Cambridge Blood Program, said yesterday. Drive officials expect no more than 500 pints, 40 per cent less than last year's record...