Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychokinesis (no doubt his trade name for a hunch) is a-little inane, a great deal beyond ordinary, garden variety crapshooting. Miss Dale's figures showing 171 hits better than pure chance out of 31,104 rolls, rather than proving PK, could just as well be 171 hits worse than pure chance...
...time the conference met in secret session to hammer out its program there was little doubt what it would be. The main points, as expected: 1) a Wallace-inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections...
Americans who doubt that the Kremlin has a master plan would do well to observe the flexibility with which it has adapted its methods of control to its strength in the satellite countries. Thus, in Finland, Soviet control, while strong, is practically invisible. In Czechoslovakia, where Communists have tight control of the government, there is a high degree of popular democracy. Yugoslavia, with its Communist dictatorship, is practically a part of the Soviet Union. In Rumania, where Communists are 2% of the population, it has moved cautiously...
Even after the final game of the season, U.S. baseball fans did not know who would play in the World Series (see SPORT). But there was never any doubt who would be on hand to tell them about it. For the tenth year, Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum, Hearst's stump-shaped sports columnist, got ready last week for radio's biggest sports event...
...Shaw solemnly announced that royalties from their sale had jumped 170% in two years-from about three shillings in 1889 to about eight shillings in 1891. "I doubt," said he, "if any other living novelist can show such a record...