Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been called to our attention that a recent issue of TIME has commented upon the identity of "Guess Who," the Berlin propagandist, as being Robert Henry Best, "of Sumter," Sumter County...
Whether it is actually Best who is working for the Nazis, or some other person using his name, has not yet been indisputably established. We understand that the Berlin broadcaster "Guess Who" has what seems to be an unmistakable Southern accent...
Since Marshal Timoshenko's old opponent, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, had the advantage of opening the attack, it meant little that the Russians were outnumbered at first. What did loom darkly were the successive indications of the Moscow dispatches: first the censors allowed a guess that Bock was testing Timoshenko's "remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets...
...Then there Were ...? In today's sea & air fleets, the most important ship is the aircraft carrier. Nobody knows exactly how many carriers Japan had when the war started. Best guess: nine regular carriers, plus ten or more converted merchantmen, which are not so effective as carriers built for the job. Of her regular carriers, Japan has certainly lost four, plus three laid up for repairs. She probably lost six, and she may have lost seven...
What the replies would allege in self-justification or palliation was anybody's guess, and guess everybody did. Buenos Aires newspapers sarcastically guessed that the German sub-commander had mistaken the sky-blue-&-white markings of nonbelligerent Argentina for the medium-blue-&-white markings of belligerent Honduras, that he had failed to perceive 4-ft.-high letters reading REP. ARGENTINA. Best guess was that Germany and Argentina would repeat the routine following the 1940 torpedoing of the Argentine merchantman Uruguay off the Spanish coast: Argentina protested; Germany's reply was accepted; neither was ever published...