Word: expects
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then came psychology-Watson's behaviorism and Freud's psychoanalysis. As a result of the former, "parents were told that if a baby were . . . picked up just once when he cried, he would be 'conditioned' [to expect it] ... On the other hand, a properly trained baby would result if 'everything done for him [were] so regular that one can tell time by what is going on in the nursery...
...brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...
...Tosea) and "The Lost One" (La Traviata)--have made some concessions to the customs of moviegoers. Each had talented and handsome actors, opera-type histrionics were minimized, the scenery was clean and smoothly pressed, and--most of all--the plot was made as plausible as a reasonable person should expect. In short, the producers were making a movie, not filming an opera...
...successfully presented a complex problem without long, impassioned speeches; his dialogue is terse and understated. Voices are raised only four or five times during the evening. And time is taken to give a complete picture of the characters' lives. This leisure may annoy those theatre-goers who expect rapid exposition and geometric relevance of every line to the ultimate "point" of the play. But the play would be much less powerful if it were otherwise. For example, it is important that the emptiness of the major's marriage be established early as a contrast to later happenings--and that requires...
...same sources point out that Pick-Sloan soil conservation is so deficient that engineers expect the project's dams will be silted up within a few years...