Word: guesswork
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...Guesswork. It is not easy to say who should be believed. From Jeremy Wolfenden, London Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow, came word that "Russian sources decisively reject the idea that Mr. Khrushchev will retire either from the premiership or the secretaryship of the party." Merle Fainsod, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, said Crankshaw "is spinning things out rather thin." William Griffith, research associate on Communist affairs at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, declared, "I would not say that the weight of evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith...
...Zeit, thought it was "very possible that Khrushchev will give up one of his posts, more likely the government job." The free-for-all was clearly getting out of hand; somewhat unprofessionally the Guardian's Polish-born Soviet expert, Victor Zorza, shrugged, "it's all guesswork," then plunged back into the fray...
Ever since man emerged into consciousness, he has been trying to descry order in the world around him, often by resorting to provocative guesswork. It was an inspired guess by Dmitri Mendeleev that helped organize the elements into the periodic table. Historical guesswork is harder to prove definitely right or wrong. Spengler, who died in 1936, remains one of the few men of modern times who have attempted to assimilate all knowledge and discern a broad design. Even wrong, Spengler is more stimulating than many another historian who has never guessed...
...like the piano, whose tone is kept in tune by the tuner," Jascha Heifetz once complained. "Playing the violin is all guesswork; you cannot even scratch a mark on the wood so you can tell where to put your fingers to repeat the right note...
...crooked dice are as old as gambling. For the subcommittee's edification, investigators carted in a remarkable range of more advanced products that help take the guesswork out of gambling. Among the latest and kinkiest wrinkles...