Word: guess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen's cause: Everett Dirksen...
...this point McCurdy stood up and prepared to move out to the Cage. "Well, I guess that's the picture," he said. "It's a picture of the weakest team I've had--in terms of proven material...
...people are out here rain or shine, I guess...
...glanced ruefully into the wire basket. "No, people don't notice one way or another, I guess. Now take some of these guys. The Salvation Army pays them seventy-five, eighty cents an hour and if it rains they'll go hand around a street corner instead of setting up. It don't pay. Me, I'm doing this for nothing, understand. My sister, she goes down to the Salvation Army a lot and sometimes she asks me to help out. You know how it is. So I don't mind--days like this you can't get nobody...
...Apart from creating the material conditions necessary to have religion vanish," said Science & Life, "the Communist Party has worked tirelessly to employ skillfully these conditions to combat religious superstition." Not skillfully enough, perhaps; though the magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that the ideological struggle . . . to rid all believers of religious superstition has receded into the background...