Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GUESS YOU would call them redneck bars. They line rural highways throughout the South and West, claustrophobic, smoke-filled little places with sawdust on the floors--places where if you look someone in the eye you're prepared to fight or say, "Gee, I thought you were a buddy of mine. Can I get you a beer?" They smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke, with maybe a tinge of reefer wafting up from a distant corner, and there's always puke on the floor, it seems. And out in every parking lot is a half-crazed drunken fool loading...
...habit I got into, I guess, in my senior year in high school, going to the Town & Country Lounge at Big Chimney, the Meadowbrook Inn at Mill Creek, or the Bridge at Spencer. I'd talk to the construction workers who drank hard liquor every night and went to work every morning at six, to the whores with the piled-up hair the construction workers screwed every weekend, to the pool sharks and the bootleggers. All that was interesting, but what really pulled me there on Friday and Saturday nights when my friends had dates was the music. In every...
Esch, who represents the liberal arts college on the faculty council, said yesterday it is "anybody's guess" what will happen at today's meeting...
...inability of any single power to control the international system. But now is not the future. And it would appear that the Soviet Union is about ready to enter an expansionist period. In the context of purely isolationist American foreign policy, one can hazard a pretty fair guess as to what "given up" will mean. At least in one case, that of Israel, it will mean nothing short of destruction...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is siding with the civil rights groups; the Justice Department favors the unions' position, in part because from the start seniority lists were exempted from the dictates of Title 7 as the price of labor support of the measure. Nobody is yet ready to guess what the court will decide...