Word: expectably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abolishing the all-or-nothing electoral system in each state and making it instead a proportional reflection of the popular vote, many Republicans thought that they could for the first time expect supporters and the beginning of a real two-party system in the Solid South. Similarly, Democrats could count on picking up an electoral vote or two in rock-ribbed Vermont and Maine. But Southern Democrats had something else in mind: such minority groups as the Negroes-often the Democratic margin of victory in Northern states-would be less important in party councils. The amendment would sharply reduce...
...charging the Germans with the responsibility for Hitler's crimes . . . No one demands a beating of the breasts or a scene at Canossa.* But what I do expect is an end to the arguments of those Germans who would not only deny their own guilt, but also seek to place the responsibility for the consequences of that guilt exclusively upon the shortcomings of other peoples ... I want you to know that such utterances . . . call to mind what people are now disposed to forget, that is, the amazing docility and acquiescence of the greater part of the German population toward...
...present, Randall's office is packed with some 30-odd coats and jackets, 150 assorted books, rubbers, umbrellss, ladies' compacts, silk stockings, briefcases, and a lot of other things you wouldn't expect people to walk off and forget...
...medical needs. But, as the bill is written now, the scholarship plan will never stimulate medical enrollment; and the stipend paid schools for additional students can increase the body of physicians only in proportion to the population growth. Without this financial aid to the schools, the AMA can expect a decrease in quality if not in numbers of the profession whose exclusiveness it so jealously guards...
...recent survey indicated that about 50 percent of the married students now occupying temporary housing under University auspices would be completing there courses by the fall of 1950. With a few exceptions, remaining tenants expect to finish by September...