Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equivalent to a rookie batting .425 in the majors. What made the feat even more outstanding was the fact that Robin was the first boat he had ever designed. Hood was known for canny helmsmanship, learned in a lifetime of small-boat racing ("I've always sailed. I guess") that made him North American sailing champion in 1956. More important, he was famed for setting up a sailmaking business at the age of 22. He developed and wove his own brand of tough fabric from Dacron, which proved so successful that last year he supplied some sails...
...future in Iraq is still anybody's guess, but with these three men beside him, harried, bone-weary Kassem is in better position to lead his country farther to the left-but not toward Moscow...
...companies about to weigh in with more record earnings, Adams was not the only steelman who felt slightly uncomfortable at announcing record profits in the middle of a strike for higher wages. Said an officer of U.S. Steel, the industry's leader: "Our earnings are pretty large. I guess they could come out at a better time. But we are taking it like good sports, proud to have done so well. Even after wage-cost push, depreciation, wasteful practices and such, we still have an awfully big hunk of dough left over...
Weariness of price upcreep made many a union member skeptical about the value of wage boosts won by unions. Admitted a United Auto Workers official in Detroit, on the eve of the threatened steel strike (see BUSINESS) : "My guess is that the steel strike will get as little actual support, from the public and from labor in general, as any strike ever got. The average working stiff is becoming much more realistic about these things...
...want the show to be entertaining above all, so I'd better play up the farcical opportunities and invent a lot of by-play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare's delicately balanced construction; but that will have to yield just this once to allow for my additions...