Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...
...Best guess was that Homer Bone would not resign from the Senate until after the November election, thus preventing Republican Governor Arthur Langlie from appointing an interim G.O.P. Senator. But with the hottest Democratic vote getter out, Washington GOPsters were hopeful. Best Republican bet: Eric Johnston, 47, of Spokane, the forceful president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
What Dewey said was perhaps worth saying, although nearly everybody else in the U.S. had said it before him. What was its "significance"? Best guess: Dewey was thinking of next week's crucial Wisconsin Presidential primary. Wendell Willkie was on the scene, hard at work; perhaps Tom Dewey thought he needed to remind Wisconsin that if you looked hard for a candidate, he wasn't really invisible...
...know of no other way I would rather die, or my son, than for his country. I have never been able to understand why young people die, I guess I am not supposed to. I have lived to see a good many things that looked bad at the time turn out for the best later. This one I will never be able to see. I had figured on trying to get out after this summer but I will stay for the duration now. I hope and believe you will understand. This is the first time in my life to know...
There was no band, no flag, no ceremonial. It wasn't even dramatic. A car honked outside and he said: "Well, I guess that...