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Word: guesswork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from the merely good one is his ability to pronounce names correctly that most people muff ("Loo-EE-jee Da-la-pee-CO-la"). To take the guesswork out of pronunciation, Grayhill Productions has now issued an LP recording that no serious player can afford to be without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ah-ca-PELL-cT | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer-eyed silliness with the caveat that it "stands on the borderline of daring scientific guesswork and scientific fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Enoch & Other Cosmonauts | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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