Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure out how much Harvard pays I would have to determine what we paid to buy books, to catalogue and maintain them. I couldn't even make a guess what the final cost would be," Martin said...
...long the grace period for Marcos' new regime will last is anybody's guess. Although the Philippine army seems to have contained the relatively small cadre of Maoist insurgents on Luzon, there was a bloody clash two weeks ago between Marcos' troops and units of the fledgling New People's Army at Marawi in Mindanao, where MoslemChristian sectarian strife could provide a tinderbox for future flare-ups. Marcos has also made some powerful enemies in the past two months, including more than 4,500 civil servants who were fired from their jobs on charges of corruption and disloyalty, and wealthy...
...past, until they die out completely." Why? Because, he says, "the Ik teach us that our much vaunted human values are not inherent in humanity at all." There is no denying the Ik are ignoble savages. Turnbull reconstructs their past-often on the basis of what he admits is "guess-work"-as a once more numerous society that hunted the broad valley below their present home, retreating only seasonally into the mountains. Creation of a game reserve a generation ago penned the Ik into the mountains, forcing them to farming. Then they were afflicted by drought, hunger, isolation, technical inadequacy...
...sort of," he said, "but I suppose I was too lazy to see it through (you can guess what I was doing the night before) so I offered a draw...
...rather go out and do things than sit around and theorize." Snavely explained last week. "I really like to go out and have a good time, although sometimes I guess I get a little out of hand...