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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodies on the street early in the morning should you choose to go slumming, but the only corpses left lying are those of people without families to carry them away. For each dead body in the morning how many were buried overnight? Five? Ten? A hundred? Your guess is as good as mine...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Hunger and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

...every week I'd check out those All Star ballot results in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and hovering a good 200,000 votes over Bowa was always Dave Concepcion, a .269 hitter with an iron glove. I guess those Reds fans really know how to make their ballots count...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: You Don't Have to be a Sox Fan to Hate the Reds | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

...buried in Cadillacs because that's what's killing us." Gentility. GM, Lord & Taylor, Philco "new color" TV...but isn't that what she meant when she admonished you for worshipping weakness? Maybe these days she really is aiming for a genteel brand of obscenity. It's hard to guess why she should. Apparently her flock wants it that way. Better leave the cussing out altogether--tacit apologies make it so utterly superfluous...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Nothing Black but a Cadillac | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

...Ford came out and started to wave," Sipple recalled. "I started to applaud. At that point, I seen this arm with the chrome-plated gun at the end of it right in front of me. I don't know why I did it. Reaction, I guess. I lunged with both hands. I grabbed her arm down. I don't know if it went off before I grabbed her or not." Other officers were certain the lunge was in time. "There's no question he did deflect the weapon," said Lieut. Frank Jordan. "Just as she shot, he pushed it aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...guess I'm not really a very reliable guy," Oliver Wellington Sipple remarked last week. It seemed an odd comment, for it was Sipple who grabbed the arm of Sara Jane Moore as she took a shot at President Ford, perhaps helping to save the President's life. But then Sipple hardly conforms to any stereotype of the all-American hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAN WHO GRABBED THE GUN | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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