Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larsen, President of TIME Inc., in Buenos Aires on a trip, talked to President Perón and asked when we could expect the ban on TIME to be lifted. The Chief of State expressed his sympathetic understanding of TIME'S problems in Argentina and hoped "that bureaucratic blocks might soon be removed...
This is merely a way of dodging the hard facts of U.S. responsibility and interest in Greece. Sober American observers feel it makes little sense to expect good democratic behavior from a nation which has never had a fair chance to give democracy...
Brock Pemberton, veteran producer of Broadway plays-Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Harvey (1944)-stepped before the klieg lights for a Hollywood screen test. "I don't expect anything will come of it," he grumbled afterwards. "I just did it for the experience ... I imagine that my investment of some $5 for renting [a costume] will be wasted...
...insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus. "It's a different kind of trade," he cheerfully concluded. "Can't expect t'understand it if yer know nauwt about...
Sullivan, himself, never stumped hard for his bill, which he revised twice before it hit the House floor, where it was approved without vocal dissent. He said when he first filed the bill, "I don't expect it to pass, but it will serve as a warning to trustees that the legislature is prepared to deal with communist infiltration if the colleges don't themselves...