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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funny but I never thought of myself as living in a mill village, though I suppose I did. The houses all around us were millhouses. My husband says that in some towns, mill people were called 'cotton-mill trash.' Well, I guess maybe they were here too, but as far as we were concerned, we didn't ever hear...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: J.P. Wouldn't Do That | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

Mitchell said people often won't sell real estate to religious associations. "You would expect Cambridge to be a place where there can be cultural and religious diversity, but I guess that isn't so," she said...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Cambridge May Bar Buddhist Occupancy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

Socrates: Hey, I guess I was wrong. Let's go get something to drink...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Two Soccer Players Make the Game Look Easy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...place second to Kennedy in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries, and score well in the Minnesota precinct caucus and the Illinois primary. Says Quinn: "If Carter comes in third in Illinois, he's finished." If Kennedy is regarded as too big a spender and Carter as incompetent, guess who will be "a new possibility." If not, as Brown said: "Maybe it will take more than one year. Maybe it will take four years. I'm only 41, and I've got a lot of time." So much time, that in the year 2000 Jerry Brown will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More of Less | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Surprise is the key to Brooks' style; viewers can never guess the next line or the next move. In the premiere episode of The Associates, for example, there is a battle between two young lawyers for a partnership. One (John Getz) is sympathetic; the other (Joe Regalbuto) is a sycophant. Based on his experience with 10,000 other sitcoms, the viewer thinks that the good guy will win and expects them to play off one another for the rest of the series. But Brooks has Mr. Good not only lose the job, but also quit the firm -and leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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