Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cost of Defense. It was scarcely the commissioners' job to settle that kind of technical debate. They had a right to expect that the JCS would have settled the fight among themselves and come up with carefully integrated plans. It was apparent that real unification had not yet taken place in the services. If it had, it would have meant "an enormous opportunity for savings," said the report, which, in a restrained fashion, recommended that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal should knock some heads together...
This was as close as Cripps dared come to telling British workers (who last fortnight, through the Trades Union Congress, said that they would not accept wage ceilings) that they must not expect wage increases. "The Chancellor," said the Tory Daily Mail almost with relish, "is pretty good at these unpleasant jobs...
...chairman of the five-nation U.N. Palestine Commission, Czechoslovakia's big, bespectacled Karel Lisicky, said disconsolately to his four colleagues, "Nobody can expect miracles from five lonely pilgrims who at this moment have nothing but the U.N. flag, and perhaps this gavel as well, as all their means for enforcing [the partition] resolution...
...stepped jauntily from tee to green. He was shooting good golf ("Something around 80," he guessed). On the 18th hole, his ball plopped within five feet of the pin (applause) and then he sank the putt (more applause). Bing looked reproachfully over his shoulder and husked: "What did ya expect...
...change my game, of course. I like to stay back and wait for the ball but now I have to come up to the net after the serve and meet Jack's attack. Jack's ahead and he's a tough player but I ... still expect to come out ahead." For cocky Bobby Riggs, that was a decidedly modest prediction. With 50-odd matches still to go, the score in matches was Kramer 6, Riggs...