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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since this was TV, the answer is not hard to guess. Buddy's decision to remain chaste was realistic for a girl her age. Going to bed with Zack also might have been realistic, except that television's conservatism, especially in hit series, ruled it out. The show was not really about making a choice; it was a coy and irritating tease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Voluptuous maidens fight to do his bidding, and after the first encounter he has no obligations: he doesn't have to give anything to hold onto them. No woman says, "I'm sorry, Vlad, it's just not working out--I guess you're not my type...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...guess. You ran the insipid article on the chicken flying contest [July 2] just to see if anyone was reading American Scene. Well I read it, and I find chicken flying in the same category as fox clubbing, dog fighting, cock righting and rattlesnake throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Vegas? What's that?" he replied indignantly. "I make the odds. They listen to me. Come on, tell me. The odds. Just a guess. A long shot. Go ahead. Just a guess...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's Home | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...think my eyes were big? Those were the uniforms Leo Durocher, Ducky Medwick, Pepper Martin wore, and I was carrying them in my arms. By the time I was eleven or twelve, I was seeing 100 baseball games a year, sitting in the stands second-guessing Billy Southworth. I guess you could say that baseball got into my blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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