Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although he was asking for less than the nation had been prepared to expect and many willing hands were anxious to give, the President, speaking in the mood that currently grips Washington, talked as if the U.S. public still had to be persuaded that there was a crisis on. It seemed a time for the trumpet call to meet imminent danger, but the trumpet note was never heard. The President's words were simple and clear, but the message-like so many of Harry Truman's non-political utterances-had a thin, overworked and flat quality. His speech...
Mail Call. But such contrition was not enough to undo the damage. The impact of the Hume note had given all the President's private correspondence an enormous curiosity value and had prompted the world to expect the worst. A letter to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward Hebert, which ordinarily would have aroused only passing interest, made Page One and caused a second round of lugubrious headshaking...
Travel agencies and railways expect an unusually large number of students in this area to go home for the holidays, according to a survey made yesterday...
...gonna get out of here," said Lieut. Colonel Raymond L. Murray, commander of the 5th Marine Regiment. "Any officer who doesn't think so will kindly go lame and be evacuated, but I don't expect any bites for that offer." There were no bites...
From carnivals, boardwalks, county fairs and street corners across the U.S. the glib salesmen known as "pitchmen" were rushing into television. In the New York area alone, TV pitchmen expect to reap a $10 million harvest this year. This week Manhattan Adman Harold Kaye will have nearly 20 of his pitchmen doing more than 130 hours of solid selling on TV, hawking such merchandise as $1 card tricks, electric irons, luminous Christmas tree ornaments, infrared-ray broilers, talking dolls, $39.95 wristwatches (on "easy, generous terms...