Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would guess 10% of my working day is spent on politics, and 90% on presidential business. My working day begins at 6 o'clock in the morning and usually runs until 7:30 at night, plus an hour or two after dinner...
...guess President Ford is the most likely Republican nominee, though he is certainly no sure thing. I would guess that with the possible exception of Michigan, I would be ahead now in all the states. Between now and Labor Day, the margin will narrow, but that's to be expected. I think that I will win in November, but only if I don't become overconfident. If I should get arrogant, or start to depend on powerful political intermediaries, that could cost me the election...
...Then the submarine surfaced, black and wet, but with no identification marks whatsoever. Skipper Hamnen and his 40 crewmen reckoned that it was a Soviet sub, but tried shouting in Norwegian anyway to the seamen who began appearing on its deck. There was no response. Said Hamnen: "I guess they weren't too eager to talk with us. After all, it's pretty dumb when a modern submarine gets caught up in a fish net. It's supposed to carry instruments that can spot a trawler, cables and all, and avoid it in good time...
...were unable to find out in advance the identity of Jimmy Carter's running mate. Except for Gilbert Giles. By following up a tip from an associate of Edmund Muskie who was privy to the Maine Senator's pre-convention discussions with Carter, Giles made a shrewd guess and beat the rest of the press by a full day on the convention's one big newsbreak. IT'S OFFICIAL: MONDALE/CAR-TER! crowed the front-page headline. Explained Giles, 12, a reporter for Children's Express, the fledgling preteen monthly that published a special convention issue last...
...minute boys." And then, after hanging up the phone, an explanation: "Sorry for making you boys wait. That was the television people. They want me to go on T.V. but you know damn well all they want to talk about is niggers, the nigger problem...Well, I guess we're always gonna have a nigger problem, boys...