Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pros & cons Jimmy Byrnes seemed to have the most pros, if he really wanted the nomination. Most of the party could agree on him, except for his one political handicap-he is no longer a member of the Catholic Church into which he was born. No one could guess how the all-important Catholic vote would regard this. A fight was clearly developing which even a clear indication of Presidential preference might not settle...
...American League champion is still anybody's guess, but many a fan favors the leading Browns, who have never yet won a pennant. To succeed, Manager Luke Sewell's hopefuls must hold their slim lead not only against the strongly bidding New York Yankees (who became even stronger this week with Veteran Frank Crosetti's return from a West Coast war job), but also every other club in the tightly bunched eight...
Permanent Division? From London came a shrewd guess at another phase of these plans. The astute Observer added up the signs that Adolf Hitler proposes to fight for months, that he has utterly destroyed every source of democratic or leftist resistance, that even the Junkers, industrialists and generals are neither able nor anxious to throw him out and shorten the war, that the Nazis actually do have plans to go underground...
What the Hell. So did Sunny Ainsworth. Not that the aptitude test was hard. "I didn't do anything flashy," she said, "but I guess I got by." After the three hours' grilling in the boiler-room temperature of Cobb Hall, Sunny's slightly hennaed hair was still schoolgirlishly neat, but her academic comment was caustic. "I can't understand," she said, "why the University of Chicago gives tests like this. They're poorly made up, if you know what I mean, and I don't think they show what kind of a mind...
Sunny's thirst for knowledge is something of an anticlimax in a short but eventful life. She grew up in Matagorda, Tex., where her father was an oil man-"I guess you'd call him a wildcatter." He was also, says Sunny, "sort of a heller." One day he was shot in a Texas hotel room ("Right between the eyes," says Sunny). Nobody ever found...