Word: expected
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages. Then lie may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression, if one be enforced apart from the other, sufficient grounds for taking up arms again."-Mein Kampf...
...This totaled some $2,100 or just over ?500. By the end of November the membership was 15,000. The November score was 293 enemy planes, the take better than ?2,500. (A Hurricane or Spitfire costs about ?5,000.) By the end of December the Buenos Aires boosters expect 20,000 members. Meantime their Fellowship of the Bellows has blown into Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile...
Judging from past assignment, Juniors this year may expect to board destroyers for their summer training, while students in the two lower classes will probably weigh anchor on battleships. It is not known as yet whether the bases recently acquired from the British will be visited...
President Roosevelt had the power (by Act of Congress) to enforce Henry Stimson's dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...
...avocation has been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody to grasp it in half an hour...