Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Negotiations were finally speeded up by an artificial deadline. At midnight last Wednesday (Washington time), Linowitz's six-month commission as special negotiator was due to expire. He would not have been ejected from the conference room. Nevertheless, he warned his fellow negotiators: "I guess I become a pumpkin at midnight." They made sure he stayed to the end of the ball. After a final, 14-hour marathon session, with only short breaks, they completed the treaty...
...Frenchman received "no assurances," Roosevelt said later, but the President added: "He is a very able fellow, and it was his business to find out what he thought our Government would do. He would have been a very dull man had he been unable to make such a guess...
...place his hands on top of it. Having followed the mountains of clippings about Son of Sam closely-a scrapbook of them was found in his apartment-Berkowitz recognized the arresting officers' leader, Deputy Inspector Timothy Dowd. "Inspector, you finally got me," he said quietly to Dowd. "I guess this is the end of the trail...
...House players, the "Jimmy's." When the Newsies won 14-11, Carter's team immediately demanded a rematch-and lost again. In the third game, the press finally buckled under presidential pressure and lost 19-17. A jubilant Carter shook hands with the crowd and drawled: "I guess we can go back to Washington...
...mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what I think." She did protest a story about sex at Barnard College, her alma mater. "It was an unfortunate piece of publicity," she sighs. "I guess people get lots of sex nowadays, but they lose the romance...