Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatly refused to return home. He also refused to pay for the funeral. "Look," he said, as his baffled sons tried to guess whom they had buried, "I've had all my teeth out. My plates fit. I feel fine. After 44 years I got tired of living with Jennie. This is the life...
...Odom set a new distance record for single-engined light airplanes when he flew a 185-h.p. Beechcraft 2,407 miles* from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif. Said Odom, stepping out of the plane after his 22-hour flight: "I've never been so thirsty in my life. I guess it was looking at all that water...
Said Board President Joseph E. Gandy: "A happy solution." Said Cissy, who may continue as manager: "All those board members have been pretty good about this. I guess a lot of them aren't crazy about me. But they want to give the musicians a good break, and that's what's important...
...getting on should be made to understand that he is no longer a stripling; otherwise, the inevitable shock, when it does come, will be greater, perhaps disastrous. The patient, thinks Gumpert, should be told what he can do and cannot do safely-and even (if the doctor can guess) how long he may expect to live. Then the doctor should do his best to make him live long and like...
...ventured to guess how the voting would go. Kashmir's popular Premier, Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, is for union with India. For religious as well as economic reasons, many of his countrymen (85% Mohammedan) would vote for Pakistan. Said a Kashmiri village elder: "In the old days, one candidate offered us a ride to the voting place, a second offered us money. Then, even so, we voted for the third...