Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What happened in the park-and again in the court of the palace where the fountain was, and the flowers . . . these were rich-they must never be trusted to treacherous paper-memory will do-I guess no one in the world who could appreciate a joke would be likely to forget them...
...night of Jan. 30, Major Ralph Hubbard and the other prisoners of Pangatian Camp waited as they had waited for months-ever since they had seen the first white-starred bombers over Luzon. They could only guess at what was happening now in the northwest,. where the sky on past nights had been lit with pale flashes of gunfire. Over a radio improvised from scraps and toothpaste tubes they had caught fragmentary reports. They knew that MacArthur-who would "always seem to see the vision of the grim, gaunt, and ghostly men"-must have returned. Inside their bamboo and barbed...
...question was: are the Germans on their last legs? If Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army suddenly threw caution to the winds and dashed for Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans...
...meet last week, but the Big Three nations began their conferences. First in London with the British, then in Paris with the French, emissaries of President Roosevelt discussed background problems of the big meeting. The cooks were standing in front of the stove and the world was left to guess what was cooking...
...week's end cargo valued at $1,000,000 had been landed. How much salvage money the U.S. would eventually pay was anybody's guess, but fishermen thought it would come close to $100,000. Meanwhile, police searched the countryside, seized thousands of dollars worth of material hidden in homes and fish sheds. No one was arrested at once, but Canadian officials considered prosecution under customs laws...