Word: hunch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only in the highest, most discreet councils of Peru's Navy was it known that the Army transports and their naval convoy were "just hanging around," perfectly willing to fight but waiting for a hunch...
Gradually the hunch grew that revolting Arequipa was the horse to back. Presently Navy officers had a talk with Col. Sanchez Cerro, told him that only a single regiment in Lima remained loyal to his regime. He resigned, moved from the presidential palace into a hotel, loudly cheered by a handful of friends. "I only wanted to save my country," he explained. "I had no political ambition...
...have made more money than the world's greatest money- winner?Ksar, the French horse ($335,-340)?if he had not been beaten in the Travers. Jim Dandy, California outsider, at 100 to i, beat him that day on a sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had had a hunch about Jim Dandy, someone had guessed what he could do, for his owner, young Chaffee Earl, had pointed him all season for the Travers, had hitched his luxurious horsecar to the end of a coast-to-coast express so that he would receive every comfort. Few believe that Jim Dandy...
Certainly a line or two in "Milestones" could chronicle this fact along with the announcement of elections of other bishops. Isn't a bishop more important than the death of a bull or a camel (TIME, June 2)? I have a hunch that this is a good steer...
...have a hunch that the crowd will be humming "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" long after our talented friend has sung himself into the same state, or county, with Kreisler. CAREY HOLBROOK...