Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poignant" has been a bad word ever since Walter Winchell found theatrical producers would quote him in their advertisements if he used it. Yet it's hard to describe this drama, which treads the edge of melodrama with such sure steps, in any other way. People have come to expect from O'Neill the thundering savagery of fallen men in conflict with themselves. But A Touch of the Poet belongs to two women and their story is a fragile...
Three graduate school--the Divinity School, the School of Education, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, expect increased registration today...
...chicken and eggs she went to one shop, for olive oil or wine to another. She could not buy pork where she bought veal. If she wanted sausages, she could not expect to find eggs at a nearby counter. After both industries became state monopolies, she had to go to the neighborhood tobacconist to buy salt. Each day she had to visit up to a dozen different shops to buy just enough food to last until the next day. Each day shopping for food alone took anything up to four hours...
...vessel, probably cost around $40 million, three times more than Canada's diesel-powered icebreaker Labrador. To build the new ship, Canada will need help from the U.S., but since a Canadian icebreaker would be a major addition to joint U.S.-Canadian forces in the Arctic, Canadian planners expect Washington to give all technical assistance-and a hearty Godspeed. Most likely builder of the propulsion reactor: Hamilton's Canadian Westinghouse Co., Ltd., whose U.S. parent company built the Nautilus' reactor...
...North; another denounced as "scandalous" the "many Catholic hospitals [which] practice policies of racial exclusion or segregation." A third was directed at President Eisenhower's "go slow" words on school integration: "At this critical time in world history, the people of the United States have a right to expect their Chief Executive to use the full moral authority of his office to secure full equality for all citizens in all parts of our nation...