Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshmen officials expect a "spontaneous" torchlight parade to wind up the evening...
...Music came Marguerite Willauer to play Galatea. You will look long before you find such a lovely and poised creature on an opera stage. Except for a few uncertainties, she sang with purity and richness. Her alternating recitative with Tibbetts compares favorably with any singing around, including, I expect, the Met next week...
...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...
...surgeon, Critics Lipkin & Joseph think, should take time to talk-and listen-to his patient. He should tell the patient just what to expect, stress his chances of surviving the operation and getting well. Sometimes, Lipkin & Joseph charged, the doctor "tries to justify a large fee, or builds up his own importance in the patient's eyes by talking of the difficulty of the operation and how his experience and skill will be needed . . ." Unfortunately, the operation's danger is what sticks in the patient's mind...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, which picked Mississippi-raised Frances Gaither's novel as its March selection, can reasonably expect that thousands of readers will plug right along until they find out whether the yellow girl gets off or not. Before they get through, however, a good many who order this one will understand the words of Kirk's plain-spoken sister-in-law: "There ain't a mite of use of dodging pain. [God will] hand you the cup, and then you got to dreen...