Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British guess was that the cruiser, recently torpedoed by an English sub, was being moved somewhere-probably into the Baltic-for dockyard repairs...
...successful the R.A.F. offensive against Germany is in keeping the German air force away from Russia is anybody's guess. But one reasonably informed guesstimate came last week from Peter Masefield, aviation expert of the London Sunday Times. He calculates that more than two-thirds of Hermann Göring's battlers are being held in Europe and Africa to fight off the British. His guess at the disposition of Nazi air strength...
This year the Russian spring is a threat, not a promise. The sun drying out the mud ever farther north unrolled a great firm highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
Faced with these dispositions, Douglas MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, and all the other Allied leaders from San Francisco to Calcutta, had a tough decision to make. They had to guess what shell the pea was under...
Nasty bit of business: devious Bette, home from driving her purloined husband to suicide, and burning to get out of town, tries to wheedle the cash to do it with from her robber-baron uncle, wins a chuckle from him with the brazen admission: "Guess I'm kill or cure." When he refuses to give her the money, she tries to make the old man drink himself to death...