Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest vacancy-Ambassador to China-the President had made a choice, but would not announce it until China approved. The dopesters' best guess: ramrod-straight Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now in Chungking on a special Presidential mission...
...police headquarters Otto Wilson first politely denied, then politely confessed his crimes. In his cell, red-eyed, unsteady, but calm, he kept his black hair neatly combed. It was impossible to guess what he was thinking. Outside, his first victim's husband cried to police: "Leave me alone with that guy for five minutes and I'll save the state a lot of money...
...have put in a bid only to get in under the statute of limitations, while they mull over whether to push their case. Others have filed merely for the record, i.e., to protect themselves against suits of stockholders who might otherwise feel the corporation was lax. Some tax experts guess that, at most, corporations may prove their claims to $3 billions. This is well worth the try, although the net gain will be far less. In many cases, corporations will have normal income taxes and surtaxes taken out on cash returned...
...handsome ex-captain of the Crimson thinks the war in Europe won't be over until next Summer unless Germany cracks from the inside. "I guess the Germans will fight to the last man." As for Japan, Don shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know much about it but if Leyte is any indication of the future, don't you think it's going to take a long, long, time...
Then the President, leaning back in his baggy tweeds, agreed to disclose his private pre-election guess on the division of electoral votes. He searched in a drawer for an envelope he had sealed before election day. He looked up, laughing-perhaps it would be necessary to search everyone in the room. Finally, paper in hand, he guessed that he had been a little too conservative. He had given himself 335 votes, Governor Dewey 196. (Final vote: 432 to 99.) The short conference ended with another roar of laughter after the Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward threw a quick...