Word: guesswork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aliases from this end," Roosevelt replies with his sardonic humor, "will be (a) Don Quixote and (b) Sancho Panza." Churchill feels slightly piqued: "However did you think of such an impenetrable disguise? In order to make it even harder for the enemy and to discourage irreverent guesswork propose Admiral Q. and Mr. P. ... We must mind...
...central goal of the study is to encourage doctors to discuss more openly with patients their prognoses and the possibility of future decisions--they hope that doctors will be able to understand their patients feelings before it is too late and they must resort to guesswork...
...stuff. The Government is the great smithy of information. Appreciating this, Reagan's men opened the doors to the workshop and escorted reporters inside in a way hitherto unknown in Washington. They literally told them everything. For the press, always the outsider, always operating on suspicion and guesswork and animosity, it was a dream come true. It had never before had sources like this. And, of course, the press could not risk losing these sources by offending them, so it wrote what it was given...
...hard to find bodies to work on; not only popular feeling but religion was against it. The main sources were the scaffold and the derelicts' hospital. Most of the people were old, emaciated men who died alone; his observations of women were sometimes the merest guesswork. An extreme case is a drawing in this show of the female genitalia, which are represented as an absence, a mere cave, without even primary features. It may be that Leonardo, a homosexual with a pronounced distaste for any kind of sexual act, could not bring himself to look at a vagina...
...conventions and elections, of leasing local facilities and supervising the rapid processing of thousands of feet of film. It also means working with suppliers and manufacturers to adapt or even invent processes or equipment. One new machine currently being tested uses a computerized "analyzer" to take most of the guesswork out of printing color negatives, which cannot be read by eye. To shoot space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral, for which equipment has to be set up days in advance, and left in place, the lab's specialists adapted delicate seismographic probes used for oil exploration; activated by timers...