Word: hunch
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...nearly 40 years, a gaunt oil derrick rusted on a hilltop east of Edmonton, a landmark known the country round as "Chamberlain's Folly." While digging for water on his farm in 1911, William Chamberlain had hit a pocket of natural gas and got a hunch that there might be oil on his land. He sank his savings in an oil rig, the first rotary drill ever used in Alberta. The money ran out when the well was down 2,000 feet, with no sight of oil. Discouraged, Chamberlain went back to farming...
...could have done if the oil well had come in years ago!" Other Albertans pondered, too. The province's roaring oil boom, touched off by discoveries in the Leduc area in 1947, might have got rolling 40 years sooner if anyone else had taken William Chamberlain's hunch seriously...
...Mexican history, Diego Rivera has painted at least four portraits of Conquistador Hernando Cortés, always as a handsome, broad-shouldered hero. Last week Rivera fans, examining his latest addition to the murals in Mexico City's National Palace, met a new character, a cross-eyed, hunch backed, bowlegged cretin. "It's Sancho Panza," was their immediate reaction...
...After getting a $12,000 federal grant to study "the unconscious factors in courtship and mate selection," Dr. Robert F. Winch, a 40-year-old Northwestern University sociologist, explained what he meant. He had a hunch that love sometimes tricked people into marrying the wrong types and said that he proposed to study 25 wedded couples to ascertain their "hidden needs"-unconscious demands that must be satisfied if marriage is to succeed. The doctor, a married man himself, hoped to report in 18 months...
...questions he raised, was not likely to settle the matter. Always ready for a crack at the professors, New York City's Daily News hopefully noted: "It looks as if the Buckley blast will kick up fierce rows on many campuses besides Yale's . . . Our own hunch is that he's a good deal more than half right...