Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have their country at heart! Argentines who would see their country as powerful as ours, instead of being weak and crumbling! You have sworn to keep a solemn oath! Hear our song of victory: 'Today Germany is ours and tomorrow the whole world will be ours.' . . . We expect you to imitate the example of your brothers in Holland and Belgium...
...rebuke administered to Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt, who returned last month with words of comfort for the tottery Pétain regime (see p. 27). Mr. Roosevelt's trusted Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau last week indicated that Hitler's France can expect no comfort from the U. S. More for emphasis than as a practical consideration, Mr. Morgenthau went so far as to suggest that impounded French gold and credits (total value: $1,350,000,000) might be applied to pre-Hitler France's unpaid World War I debts (balance and interest...
Said Conway Coe when the council had finished organization, decided to meet again later: "We expect to get about 100,000 inventions a year. If ten of them prove to be useful . . . the idea will have been very much worthwhile. There's no such thing as a crackpot inventor. Edison might have been the crackpot of the century. . . . But his stuff clicked...
...solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West, retained the buoyant mood of the early republic; but most of the others were cautious and conservative, cool and dis illusioned on the surface, with the know ing air of men who expect to be swindled, who cannot trust the society in which they live...
...banking power. Instead of financial kings, industrialists, foreign statesmen and Oriental potentates, his anterooms and the entrance to the Palace were crowded with anxious officials demanding back salary, retired civil servants wanting overdue pensions, and worried captains of industry begging for credit to get their factories going. "People expect miracles," remarked...