Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition there has been . . . [a] noticeable absence of the type of crimes one might reasonably expect. This record can be attributed only to police vigilance and efficiency, plus the fact that San Francisco has no district where abound people who can be described as "tough" and who would protect law-violators in their operations...
Adolf Hitler spent scarcely three hours in his newest territory, but he had time to deliver a speech in which he said: "What we can expect from the other world we know. We do not have the intention to inflict suffering on this other world; however, the sufferings that it inflicted on us we had to make good again and I believe that in essentials we have already arrived at the conclusion of this unique restitution...
...younger doctor was treating him with awed deference. Rachel's eyes glinted with admiration. Antoine had learned what being a great doctor meant. But sweating, dirty, stupefied with weariness, Antoine was only conscious of his overwhelming desire for Rachel, whom he had never seen before and did not expect to see again...
...Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
...Manhattan, seniors at New York University's Washington Square College voted that they would hold out for $25 a week before taking their first jobs, announced that in five years they expect an annual salary...