Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of people who desire freedom, measured indeed in comparison to our expenditures for European assistance and to our expenditures for national defense, its cost is insignificant. It can, it must, be continued until there is a stability in Europe which assures peace." General Clay did not try to guess when that time would come. But last week he thought he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Said he: "There is no easy road to lasting peace. It cannot come overnight. Nor can it be obtained by written agreements left to be interpreted by each participant...
When portly George P. Shaw, the new U.S. ambassador, deplaned in Managua last month, Nicaraguan reporters pounced on him for a statement. "Glad to be here," breezed Shaw in safe diplomatic language. Then he turned to an aide, boasted: "Well, I guess I'm going to get along all right with the Nicaraguan press...
...charged over to Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's palace to demand that the press be scolded for such rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...
Frankie finds pro football "every bit as much fun as college football and more. Maybe the motivating force is extra money-but it's for the wife and kiddies [he has two] rather than for the good old alumni. I guess I don't like work and I'm too lazy to steal...
...biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship of disease to creative activity and the "German problem," before, during & after Hitler. Faustus can in fact be read as an intellectual sequel...