Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birthday. In Alexandria, Va., Mrs. Nancy Stuart McCarter gave birth to a son (weight:, 7 lb., 7 oz.) on her twelfth birthday. Said Grandfather Oscar Stuart: "I guess she's broke all records for this part of the country...
...shop; G.M. made a counter-offer of a wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good sign was G.M.'s prompt promise to make any final agreement retroactive to April 28, and the union's prompt acceptance of the board's proposal to keep work in all G.M. plants going at full tilt. Conciliator James Dewey, already on the scene...
Well, who said they ate an apple? Surely not the Bible. The Bible simply says it was "fruit of the tree." So the wizards at the flower show can guess again if they like, for nobody who knows the Bible will gainsay them...
...write a book, I expect the book to be judged on its merits alone. As to where I was born, when I was born, what my nationality is, what political positions I may have held -these I consider are my personal concerns." Readers of Battle for the World might guess that he was a Red Army officer if his name was not Max Werner. Reviewing Werner's Military Strength of the Powers (1939), Tom Wintringham, organizer of Britain's ubiquitous People's Army, thought that Werner must be "from Central Europe." His reason: Werner's forecast...
...surely at this moment, this turning point in the history of the world, to bear our part. . . ." Where the next hard blow would fall-perhaps on Eire, where preparations were considered for the evacuation of Dublin, perhaps on Greenland, which the U.S. had just taken over-Winnie Churchill might guess but only his hated foe could know...