Word: hunch
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...getting into Red Korea through the service entrance, the U.S. Commerce Department revoked all licenses for U.S. trading with Communist China. Then, to guard the trap doors as well, Commerce placed a close watch on the shipment of U.S. oil refining and production equipment to Latin America, on the hunch that some was being reshipped to Asia...
Early in the tennis season, hunch-shouldered Ted Schroeder felt he had to make a choice. He could defend his Wimbledon title in early July, or he could stay home and help defend the Davis Cup against the Australians in August. The U.S.'s top-ranking amateur was too busy earning a living (as a salesman of refrigeration equipment) to do both. Much to the relief of the Davis Cup selection committee, Ted decided to stay home...
...British balletomanes they were to face for the first time were rumored to be even rougher. Wailed 20-year-old Dancer Melissa Hayden: "Gee, my stomach-I'm in real pain. I don't know how I can use my legs. I just want to hunch...
...afraid that it would be credited with fewer than the 827,000 inhabitants who were officially counted during a special census in 1945, was sending cops, firemen, and meter readers out to track down uncounted citizens. Seattle, which has 508,096 names in its city directory, had a fevered hunch that the census count would be less than a half million (1940 pop. 368,000). Its city council appropriated $800 to provide enumerators with free bus fares. Idaho Falls cried that it had been robbed by census-takers of 15% of its population...
...newspaper digs up an exclusive story, don't pass it on to the other papers, because "the city editor's hunch and the individual reporter's lead are their own property...