Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making last week. The drama had an all-star cast: Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, Columnist Drew Pearson, Ambassador William Phillips, and a whole galaxy of silk-hat names cast in minor roles. And the drama had excellent suspense-no one could guess what would happen next...
...nights earlier, residents of the southeast coast heard and felt a mighty explosion which shook the ground like an earthquake. One guess: the Germans had blown up a large store of flying bombs rather than let them fall into Allied hands...
...along the Chelm road about a mile from town. Dmitri Kudriavtsev, Secretary of the Soviet Atrocities Commission, said: "They called this 'the road of death.' " Kudriavtsev is a short man, with curly hair and a nice face. He has an even, soft way of talking. You could not guess that he has pored over more horrors in the past three years than any living...
...carved chair-and-sofa sets on the auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker's. But no records showed who had designed the pieces or the hotel itself. One guess was that the hotel's builder-one Seymour Ainsworth-had styled his building by the contractor's sample book, simply slapping, on brackets, gables, machine-cut wooden columns and arches...
...course, it would be a lot safer just to quote both sides and let your friends guess what was really going on, for then no one could accuse you of bias or unfairness. It would be a lot easier, too, for it might take you hours of digging to get to the bottom of the story. You would have to talk to your newspaper friends to find out what they had uncovered too late to print because the story had "cooled off." You would have to talk off the record to politicians of both sides. You would find some...