Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meets Girl. No one then could have guessed the final destination of the 45th, least of all Private Bill Mauldin, who was spending more than his share of time on K.P. and dreaming of his cartoonist future. In 1941 the 45th was training at Texas' Camp Barkeley. One day Mauldin went in to nearby Abilene. It was raining. On a street corner, he met two girls and another boy. Mauldin knew one of the girls. The other was named Norma Jean Humphries; she was a student at Abilene's Hardin-Simmons University. Jean, now 21, remembers the scene...
...called you, isn't it?' I said, 'Yes, that's right.' And he said: 'Well, supposing a man was madly in love with you, how often would he call you?' And I said, 'Oh, about once a day, I guess.' And then he said: 'All right, so I've called you 30 times, that means that actually I have known you for quite a long time-like 30 days at least, haven't I?' And I guess I said that was right, and then he said...
...General Fernand Oliva-Roget suddenly turned up in Paris, where he denied that his shelling of Damascus had been "indiscriminate." He said that the outbreaks had been deliberately provoked by Syrian police in the hope of British intervention. How much the British had encouraged the demonstrators he would not guess, but he added darkly that the identity of British agents in Syria was "perfectly well known...
...Suspicion? A Guess? Henry Wallace, of course, found nothing "irreconcilable in our aims and purposes. Those who so proclaim are wittingly or unwittingly looking for war, and that, in my opinion, is criminal." Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish told a radio audience: "The basis for the suspicion [toward Russia] is nothing more substantial than suspicion...
...most three-great powers, then said: "A phrase is going the rounds that there can be no lasting cooperation between two systems so fundamentally different as the Russian system and our own. It is stated solemnly as a cosmic law. But so far it is only a guess. No intellectually honest man can say it is more. What experience we have points the other way. We got along with Imperial Russia...