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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message. Ike beckoned to Mamie. "What-another crisis?" she asked. "The same one," he replied. The President sped downtown to his office in the White House, conferred with Attorney General Herbert Brownell, pored over a press association Teletype copy that lay before him. "Well," said Ike, "I guess we've still got this problem with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Same Crisis | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Lindstrom was philosophical in the dressing room. "I guess the Good Lord just couldn't stand to see Walter Johnson lose again," he said...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

...symptoms, Yovicsin asserted, had been a stiffness in his neck, spells of perspiration, and a temperature. "I guess that's Asian flu," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flu Downs Yovicsin; Coach Will Return To Post Tomorrow | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

...more rapes, more murders, more drinking, more crime, just plain more trouble than whites, all the time. That's statistics, too. You can look it up. It may be our fault they're that way. Maybe the whites should feel responsible. I don't say we're not. I guess most of the trouble is that they're all so poor you folks up here couldn't understand it, and they've always been poor, and they don't ever expect to be anything but poor. If they don't like it, they can go North, where there's lots...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Hayes-Bickford | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

...dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips and cheeks" when he is not busy slicing salami. One day Ed's youngest brother lets the hen out of the coop to be eaten by a cat. Any psychologically oriented reader can guess that this traumatic experience makes Ed mean, hard, ambitious-the ugly sibling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ugly Sibling | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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