Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered a commander whom his prewar acquaintances at home would have hardly recognized. At times he was shy, quiet. He never bragged, in public, of his own division; he never slighted the others. Once, when the 1st Armored Division was late on one of his flanks, Allen said: "I guess they had motor trouble...
Last week Vice Admiral Frederick J. Horne, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, slugged the nation with a guess calculated to wring the hands and freeze the marrow. Said Admiral Horne: "The main point is that we are planning material and ships for a war that will last at least until 1949. And that is not pessimistic...
...with fear and hatred, or whether there was secret happiness to see our bombs come down. Maybe they think they'll be free when we take over, or maybe they'll think it's just another bad thing. That depends on us, I guess. Some of my family is in Italy, and I know if I were down there with them, I would be glad to see bombs come down, even if they might...
...bombs exploded. The Opera House has been burned out and all world-famous entertainment places destroyed. It is now 8 a.m., and smoke is so black over the city that it is almost as dark as in the middle of the night." The British, hearing these propaganda words, could guess what happened to Hamburg's harbor and manufacturing areas...
...acute or chronic, the disease rarely kills anybody. But it often makes a patient wish he were dead. Between 11 and 20% of U.S. dairy cattle are infected with the undulant fever organism in one of its three forms. Most dangerous to man is Brucella suis. Experts used to guess that 10% of U.S. citizens were infected with Brucella and that 1% of those infected were ill with undulant fever at any one time. But the work of the Indiana doctors may eventually prove that there are many more than that...