Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman she was not bad," the matron said. "All of us liked her. One could never guess she was a famous...
...show closed with Shorty soliloquizing: "I guess that's what they call experience. Gettin' your teeth kicked in like that by a guy you've always looked up to. Now I'm really learning what life is like. . . . Well, nuts to 'em all. I can play it rough if that's the way they want it. And it looks from here like it's gonna be rough...
...Palm Beach, Fla., the Duke of Windsor also toyed with a new pursuit. It was too early yet to guess at his future. He pitched the first ball in the annual Society Softball Game-and it turned out he had never thrown one before. After a little instruction he managed to get it clear to the plate...
...hadn't he quit sooner? "Well," he said wanly, "I guess it was because I was home news editor and not foreign editor...
...negotiators got ready to hear what concession Stalin proposed to extract from the Finns (one guess: bases in Finland), the local Communists grew bolder. Communist "working committees" visited Helsinki newspapers, warned them to stop "anti-Soviet propaganda." Said one editor: "The next move will be an invasion of newspaper offices by hired gangsters and the eviction of our staffs...