Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good guess was that Nehru was at Ahmadnagar Fort, about 200 miles from Bombay. Here the Duke of Wellington once lunched on a grassy bank outside the fort's huge stone walls. Here the British once kept prisoners of the Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind...
...psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow so and so's have we killed?" A San Francisco motorist: "Down the street I almost ran over a Jap on a motorcycle. Maybe I should have...
...About time we get on the ball, isn't it? God, if other colleges can sell $1000 a week, we should be able to make that look like chicken feed." Chicken feed? For 4000 Harvard guys, I guess it is, thought Vag. "Well, I'll think about it, anyway." He reached for a card on the table. "You know, there's no reason why we can't do it if those other guys can. Why haven't we started this before? "But we have been--" answered the man behind the table, who was counting up his money...
...seizing the offensive the Navy put the Jap at an immediate disadvantage, a disadvantage that will last as long as the offensive is held: now the Jap had to guess where the next blow would fall-to move fast and think fast in order to get there in time...
What the status of College Football will be next year, no one can guess now. At any time, an Army order might come through, such as that which closed the Santa Anita race track on the West Coast for the duration, requesting that only a certain number of people be allowed to congregate in a stadium...