Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sulks & Nerves. For more than a year Dr. Walter has been studying the habits of his pets. He is still unable to predict exactly how they will act. Sometimes they wander happily between two gentle lights, apparently enjoying an occasional change of scenery. Sometimes they get panicky when they hit a difficult obstacle. They may stall, sulk or become wildly agitated, almost as if the frustration were giving them a nervous breakdown...
...give the appearance of being dangerously law. The report alleged that the purpose of the campaign was to sell a quantity of water meters "in excess of $300,000,000." The complaint further stated that so little is known of artificial water making experiments that it was impossible to predict accurately the results of the project...
...people themselves. The Abbey Players have caught the underlying comedy in the lives of the poor but happy country folk-in the Irish superstitions nature an typical multitude of minor sins. These qualities appear in the blind faith of the townspeople in the ability of Ma Murnaghan to predict the future and their rush to bet all their money on her choice in the Irish National...
...week's end it was. obvious that Harry Bridges had been his own best witness. Nobody-most of all Prosecutor Donohue -wanted to predict the trial's outcome. Said the prosecutor, wryly, to a group of law students: "Gentlemen, if you study hard ... you might eventually be given the honor of trying the sixth Bridges case...
Beer commented that it was difficult to predict what the results of such a close election would be since there has been no precedent in the history of the British Parliament. He cited the election of 1892, when the Liberals under Gladstone won by a narrow majority, as the closest parallel that he could think...