Word: expects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped driving. To catch such wily customers, a special Norwegian government commission last week proposed even stricter regulations, asked for a law forbidding all drivers to taste alcohol three hours before or three hours after driving. Cried a representative of the Norwegian Drivers' Association: "One cannot expect people to respect such silly laws...
...torn country; the surprise was that Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung more or less freely admitted the fact. In his first "state of the nation" report to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party two weeks ago, Mao avoided the self-praise that the world has come to expect of Communist leaders, and listed some of Red China's problems...
...addressed to the "Chief of the Communist Party" in Grafton, returned it to the sender, Richard Rolnick of Pfaffenhofen, Germany, with a little note: "We had a little ring rot in the potatoes, the snow is up to our belts, the water is up to our necks, and ... we expect a mild infestation of grasshoppers. But, thank heaven, we have been unable to find a Communist...
Meanwhile, professors are already suffering. Teachers' salaries have risen only 30% since 1940, while the cost of living has gone up about 70%. Yet, as their in comes dwindle, teachers can expect to take on a greater load than ever before. It is also highly questionable whether higher education will always be able to afford such honored academic gilding as the sabbatical...
...factory workers bustled each working day last week turning out more than 100,000 bottles of a murky brown liquid that tastes something like bilge water, and smells worse. The patent medicine called Hadacol has been such a resounding success in 14 Southern states that its backers expect this year to sell $20,000,000 worth (in 8-oz. bottles at $1.25, or in the 24-oz. family...