Word: guess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Gate. By week's end the Fourth of July standings left the Yankees teetering in fourth place by virtue of virtuous Bob Turley's one-hitter against Washington. What happens next is anyone's guess. It may not be baseball, but the fans love it. Attendance is up 15% for the league, and a ringing 38% for the Yankees at home. As for the bookmakers, all the yak about the Yankees could not be sillier. They have the Yankees as 8 to 5 favorites to win: Cleveland is 4 to 1, Chicago and Detroit...
...demonstrate their progress in the machine tools behind the machines, the Russians showed off seven industrial tools, including some that do their cutting by "sparking" discharges and ultrasonics. In the electrical discharge field (TIME, Nov. 10), U.S. experts guessed that the Russians are ahead of the U.S. In the more conventional machines and in the automatic ones operated by magnetic tapes (including a machine that cuts the word peace in a metal slab), the guess was that the U.S. is ahead...
...Stationed in Greenland, far from the smell of gunpowder but also far from any American women, the legislator-to-be seeks out the sealskinned houris of an Eskimo camp. A fight starts, and an impassioned maiden, fearful of not getting her share, gnaws him lustfully on the foot. "I guess that's the end of the war for old Johnny," says a buddy. But the future Senator has just begun to fight...
...does not give us precisely the Juliet that the playwright intended: a nymphet not yet quite fourteen years old. But this is a Juliet we shall probably never see, until perhaps someone revives Shakespeare's practice of having his heroines played by young boys. Miss Swenson is, I should guess, twice Juliet's age; yet she gives us a Juliet who is clearly a teenager, and that is in itself a rare achievement. She underscores the impression with occasional youthful bits of business, such as tossing her breviary up in the air and catching it again...
...only miracle"-meaning love. Duff took love and drink in immoderation. Depending on the flow of checks from England, she and her upper-Bohemian lover, Pat Swazey, lived on champagne or birdseed. Duff called strangers "darling" and friends "good chaps," had a title by marriage, and as anyone may guess, was the model for Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley. Though happily married, Hemingway was apparently just enough involved with Duff himself to be oath-muttering mad when she and Harold took off for a two-week seaside idyll at St.-Jean...