Word: guess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successor in Korea, hard-boiled Peng Teh-huai's rigid sense of discipline long ago got him into trouble with the commissars, notably China's No. 2 man, Liu Shao-chi, who raked him over the coals for reducing his junior officers to "ineffective yes men." Best guess as to the reason for Peng's ouster last week is that he has been too vocal in his resentment of Peking's decision late last year to put his army to work building dams, raising pigs and harvesting crops...
...Louis Cardinals in 1957. Last year he had a record of 14-13, but led the league's starters with an earned-run average of 2.88, and struck out 225 batters. Traded to the Giants, Jones has had no trouble finding the plate this season: "I guess when you throw a million balls you learn what's going over and what...
...Guess Not." Soprano Callas sang quite another tune: the break had occurred during the cruise, all right, but the timing was "purely coincidental-it had been coming for a long time." Its real source, she hinted, was her dissatisfaction over her husband's activities as her private impresario. "I am my own boss now." said she, insisting that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead...
This elaborate counterpoint confused even Confidante Maxwell, tireless companion of the rich, who had just thrown her annual party at Venice's Danieli. After consulting her friend "Ari," she supplied a breathless answer to the question of whether Callas and Onassis would marry: "I guess...
...fairy tale and a murder story round out the collection. It is an admitted literary curiosity, but it bridges the Centuries with surprising naturalness. It is not risking too much to guess that the Soochow reader of that day would have found it considerably harder to adjust to contemporary U.S. fiction...