Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive to cut Britain's foreign trade deficit, Cripps plans to tighten up the national diet from 2,870 to 2,700 calories a day (U.S. average: 3,450). Standing as far as possible from Marie Antoinette, Cripps drily said: "The public must expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone...
This device became perfected so completely that by 1939 Government leaders could expect single-day response on an informational request, such as what the miners of West Virginia felt about a certain public issue. In 1940 Cantril's "Invasion of Mars," a study of public reaction to the famed Orson Welles broadcast, assumed the proportions of a classic in social psychology. Another of Cantril's efforts, the Leadership Poll, made a significant contribution with its culling of labor and business chieftain viewpoints on current affairs...
...some with bright banners and pins, most with pockets bulging form refreshment supplies. Let's look at this thing realistically, he said to himself, and a little later Vag was hurrying over the bridge with a strictly intellectual acquaintance from the other side of the Common. What can you expect at the last minute, he philosophized...
...present, we expect other more lenient measures will prevent the violations," Police Captain Patrick J. McCarty said last night. He reported the Traffic Bureau hoped appeals to University authorities and warnings to violators would bring enough results to call off the concerted campaign...
With hopes that the band concert will bring University undergraduates in to the contribution ranks, Mrs. Brewer. Blackall, national chairman of the fund, announced, "If the Harvard Band's box-office appeal is what I expect, we will follow it up with another concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City shortly after the first of the year...