Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carrying on ten conversations. Now it's your turn. "Reminds me about the time..." you start to ramble, priming for the punch line and nervously checking other faces, for you realize that now no one else is talking. You get to the punch line, but no one laughs. "I guess you had to be there," you mumble into your untouched vienna loaf...
...then adds emphasis with one of his own. Now it's your turn so you, too, add your two cents' worth. But your story is irrelevant. It had made sense earlier in the day when you first told it, and then again at lunch, but not now. "I guess you had to be there," you tell your two companions, who are now looking at you as if you were crazy...
...nation's banks, closed by his order, would begin reopening the next day. The reaction was electrifying-and overwhelmingly positive. Walter Lippmann declared: "The nation, which had lost confidence in everything and everybody, has regained confidence in the Government and in itself." Said William Randolph Hearst: "I guess at your next election we will make it unanimous...
...struggle or its implication for Ethiopia, and the African nations that surround it are becoming increasingly edgy. Before long, onlookers predict, there is bound to be another Shootout in the fight for control of the Dergue. How many members will be left after that confrontation is anyone's guess...
...Guess what Harvard winter sports squad is on top of the Ivies, undefeated in league play, and headed for the championship. Hockey? Guess again. Must be squash, then? Wrongo. How about swimming? Nope...