Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guess I miss my girlfriend. She's not living any more. I guess I kind of blame myself for her death. We were at a party one night and we weren't getting along-we were fighting and she began to drink and she ran out of the car and I followed her. I guess I didn't realize how much she had been drinking. She asked me to drive her home and I refused. We argued a bit further. She asked me again, 'Would you please drive me home?' I didn't want to--so I shot her. (Pause...
...young woman named Claire who despises all personal attachments. When her car gets stuck in a blizzard, she chooses to walk home through the storm rather than appeal to anyone for help. Such isolation is intrinsically neither sick nor ugly. If Claire were a real person, we might guess that she had been hurt in love and was afraid of getting hurt again. If she were a character in a Swedish movie, we would assume that she was courageously accepting the metaphysical lonliness of modern man. But Claire is a character in an Oates story, and so the reason...
Indians have been exploited in many ways, but guess which political party is responsible for using them as a front for de-Republicanizing our topography...
...Administration were easing: in Washington, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told a TV interviewer that "we are rather close" to a new agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. When might the agreement be reached? Cautioning that it was impossible to predict "with precision" Dobrynin said he would guess "by the end of this year." The White House found Dobrynin's forecast "encouraging...
...There are those in the world outside," he thundered in this speech to his constituents in the Transvaal town of Heidelberg, "who believe they can bring South Africa to its knees [long pause] with a mandatory arms boycott [pause]. I tell them [long pause]they have another guess coming." The audience went wild. A National Party worker, standing 6 ft. 6 in. in his bush boots, pounded the shoulder of the spectator next to him. "Man," he shouted, "this is the man! This is the Churchill of the platteland...