Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Almazán has announced that he does not expect the election to be honest. Therefore he intends to have all his voters cast ballots for him in a private election, either before or on the same day as the general election. If his private votes do not tally with the official returns, General Almazán promises trouble...
Last week, March 18, I was plenty tickled with the way you wrote your article about me being spanked by the SEC. I expect maybe I ought to be scaired but it didn't hurt a bit. The letter the SEC wrote me was just a plain courteous letter, with no threatening and no cuss words, telling me that I had violated the law in advertiseing for a partner in a Public newspaper...
...figure the SEC wants to hurt me too much. If the spanking turns to a whipping I expect I can take it standing up and both eyes open. I am going to keep right on digging wells like I have for 25 years...
Shift? "A surprising number" of London Daily Express readers last week returned at their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...
...figures. Getting by in the chorus with face, form and a frill, for example, has been out for 20 years. A modern chorus girl must know her entrechats, also her chaine turns and tour-jetés, and do some singing on the side. At top form, she may expect as high as $75 a week, is usually out of front-line kicking...