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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, without any information about our discussions, with only the breeziest excuse for reflection, you just guessed about what we did. Your guess would be offensive if it were not silly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE-BUNKED | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...dapper as he was indignant, demanded the right to make a lengthy rebuttal and to impugn McCord's testimony. He said he had asked McCord's present attorney, Bernard Fensterwald Jr., why his client had made such a charge. Replied Fensterwald: "I can only hazard the guess that it is the result of Mr. McCord's faulty recollection. I think you will agree that there is no zealot like a convert." Taking the offensive, Alch quoted Fensterwald as declaring: "We're going after the President of the United States." Alch said he replied that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: Tales from the Men Who Took Orders | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...with both hands on his shoulders. Brezhnev grinned and waved at crowds so relentlessly, in fact, that his grandstanding seemed to nettle Brandt-no mean crowd pleaser himself when in the right mood. Once, as Brezhnev stopped to shake hands with photographers, the Chancellor muttered to an aide, "I guess I'll have to start playing this game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Determined Suitor | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Gittleman said he believed that Bok had indeed considered aesthetics in his decision, but he added that "I guess I would have weighed the intrinsic qualities of the building higher than Bok apparently...

Author: By John G. Freund, | Title: Bok Affirms Plan to Raze Hunt Hall After Receiving Petition From VES | 5/25/1973 | See Source »

...sage, and her introspection, though appealing, is directionless, as she readily admits. Now that Maynard has accumulated a following of the wornout, there doesn't seem to be anyplace to lead it. Her next book will be about doll houses, which along with TV was her childhood passion. I guess I'm a little too old for that...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Joyce Maynard in Retreat | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

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