Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general gnawed a stalk of cane. He spat out a wad, and with it his requiescat on the Caribbean Legion: "That damned legion is out of action, anyway. They couldn't get any more dough from Tio Pepe [Uncle Joe] Stalin, I guess . . . That Costa Rican business was just a guerra de galleticas [cookie war] to keep [President] Figueres [of Costa Rica] in power...
...artist who had gotten his notice two months ago from London's Old Vic repertory theater (TIME, Dec. 27), Sir Laurence Olivier had to admit last week: "I guess we are doing pretty well...
...Commissioner McDowell advised the press that he would make a decision on December 27. On that day, he conferred with Governor Bradford, and announced that he would dismiss Dr. Van Waters when Dever took office. When reporters inquired if he had informed her of his intention, he said: "I guess she will find out when you fellows print your papers...
...Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
...guns, swords and murder stories, young Doyle entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1876. Here, he fell under the spell of the man without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand side, you'll note, is farr more worn than...