Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winant went back to his house in Concord, devoted himself to writing his wartime memoirs, Letter from Grosvenor Square, about to be released by Houghton Mifflin. In recent weeks his friends had begun to worry a little about him-he showed signs of deep fatigue. But they did not guess how 58-year-old Gil Winant would end it. One night this week he shut himself in an upstairs room of the Concord house, shot himself through the temple with a .32-caliber pistol...
...some worrying about the hazards of atomic explosions (i.e., bombs). An atomic explosion that contaminated a city's water supply, warns Dr. E. G. Williams of the U.S. Public Health Service, would compel complete evacuation of the city for months, years or perhaps permanently. Scientists can only guess at how widely the effects of such a catastrophe might spread. Would the radioactive water be sucked up by roots and contaminate food plants ? Would the poison be passed on to successive plant generations by radioactive seeds...
...guess we'll have the same kind of game as last year at Princeton," MacDonald said yesterday, "with lots of contact. But if our team holds to its own style of play, we ought to pass them silly...
...will be quite a fight, I guess," declared H.U.E.R.A. President Daniel G. Mulvihill yesterday. He points out that the University budget is made up in June. To grant the raise it would be necessary for the University to take money already assigned to other departments...
After being cooped up in one room for a month, Chapp and the two gunners (both from Pennsylvania) grew tired of looking at each other. Says Chapp: "The other two boys went a little wacky and I guess I did too. I wanted to double up my fist and slug them so many times." What made life bearable for them was the generosity and courage of the Ugolini family, whose house they hid in-father, mother and two pretty daughters, Gina, 23, and Wally, 20. Gina and Wally brought the boys hot water, their meals, and the only English book...