Word: guesser
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...Navy can get us in, and the Air can give us cover, let's go." Somebody asked the head weather man a question. He stared intently at the table, finally said: "If I answered that I wouldn't be a meteorologist, I'd be a guesser." Everyone laughed. It was no time for guessing. Ike's Decision. At last General Eisenhower crisply summarized the situation. He pointed out that there were many factors in favor of the operation. He spoke also of the possible fatal effects of delay, notably the problem of security...
...tedious solemnity so weighed upon ebullient State Senator Julian James of Jonesboro, Ark., who accompanied Miss Arkansas to the finals, that he sought escape by pacing up & down the Boardwalk. Wherever he saw a crowd gathered around a weight-guesser or a salt-water-taffy artist, Politician James would step up and give the crowd a lesson in pronouncing the name of his home state: AR-can-saw, not ar-KANZUSS...
...Australian who said this last week, not a U.S. guesser. It was a burly man-without-a-country, Hubertus J. van Mook, who had been Lieutenant Governor of the Dutch East Indies. He was in Melbourne, where Douglas MacArthur was training a joint force of Australians and Americans for come-what-might...
...Guesser most interested in the fate of German subs in Yankee waters is thin-lipped, seam-faced, British-hating Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz, creator and Commander of Germany's U-boat fleet...
...past I have been a pretty good guesser for Man of the Year but this year I am in doubt between Churchill and a typical R. A. F. pilot. You will have to choose one or the other...