Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conceivably they could vote to retain Commission of Government, to join Canada or link with their newly appreciated neighbor, the U.S. Best guess: a start on the long road back to full self-governing Dominion status, which had long been their pride...
Long ago, foreign correspondents in Moscow gave up trying to guess what makes up the Kremlin's mind. When the lid of Soviet censorship was mysteriously lifted last month (TIME, Nov. 19), they got no explanations. Their am-I-dreaming-or-what stories went through untouched, and that was unexplained...
...Tokyo had cabled to Ambassador Nomura and Special Ambassador Kurusu: "There are reasons beyond your ability to guess why we wanted to settle Japanese-American relations by the 25th. . . . This time we mean it, that the deadline absolutely cannot be changed. After that things are automatically going to happen...
...economy-minded Congressmen within earshot, Ike Eisenhower made a "flash guess" that a military establishment under a single command could be maintained with 25% fewer men than under divided command. "With integration we can buy more security for less money." When he was through, eager listeners in the Senate caucus room scrambled for transcripts of his statement...
...Happy Boyhood. As any reader of The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime might guess, H. T. Webster had a happy boyhood. He spent it in Tomahawk, Wis. (pop. 3,365) where his dad ran the drugstore. Tomahawk (the way Webster remembers it) was a little town afloat in a forest where deer and small game were plentiful, the lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places...