Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left to guess at the details of the chase which brought them to grief-an omission which many a weary wartime traveler found less baffling than the minor mystery contained in one sentence of the FBI report: "Gimpel and Colepaugh stayed at the best hotels...
...Papago Park camp were full of wooden-faced horseplay. Prisoners nagged their guards, sometimes hid for days only to turn up well-fed and grinning. They were tough, picked men, almost all from Nazi U-boat crews. Beneath their erratic behavior guards could sense some hidden discipline, could only guess, month after month, at its purpose. Last week the patternless war of nerves seemed to be approaching a climax. Hundreds of prisoners formed ranks one afternoon to cheer the German advances on the western front. Then, as guards advanced, the shouting stopped. The next day-Sunday-the men behind...
...long the pinch would last, no one in WPB would guess. The Department of Commerce predicted that war production this year, based on present schedules, will drop below that of 1944. But this will happen only if present schedules remain unchanged. The probabilities are that many of them will be changed-upwards. As the year closed the lesson was plain for all the U.S. to read: in war there is never enough...
Hauled before the grand jury, some of lulu's recipients squirmed out explanations: "I didn't do much of anything"; "I ran a few errands." One flatly admitted: "I guess I didn't earn the money...
...Lonely Men. Larry Fritz was too old and too precise a hand to try to beat the North Atlantic by pounding across by guess...