Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injunction proceedings in the courts, arguing that the steel strike has not yet endangered the national health or safety, the only basis on which the law permits an injunction to be issued. Industry had precious little to gain from the use of Taft-Hartley either; management could hardly expect to get topflight production out of the angry workers ordered back to their jobs...
...driving so expensive a car, came over to investigate and spotted the beef in the back seat. With the pitcher plainly broken at last, Roden confessed all, and last week, as his trial wound to a close, he was clearly headed for the kindest fate a rustler can expect: a long stretch in prison. Worse yet, as part of his punishment, the state prosecutor was demanding confiscation of Rustler Roden's trusty Mercedes...
Santa, ruled Castro's director of culture, Vicentina Antuña, is out because he is "a recent importation [from the U.S.] and foreign to our culture." From now on Cuban children will expect presents from the Three Wise Men on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany. No cardboard Santas or reindeer will be permitted. "Decorations must be made of Cuban materials, with traditional Cuban scenes," ruled Senora Antuña, "and Cuban Christmas cards must be used instead of imported ones." Yankee Christmas trees are out; everyone will use the good Cuban palm...
...loss, on the other hand, might foretell a tough season of uphill going, he said. But the team is really hustling this year, he added, and B.C. can expect spirited opposition...
...reeled in quickly, the plug streaking like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...