Word: hunch
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...Nerve Center. This feeling of renewed hope in G.O.P. Washington was based on a hunch that the Truman popularity would continue to drop. The hunch might be wrong. But the hope it kindled had several results. It perked up sagging G.O.P. morale. It whipped Republican Congressmen into a determination to draft a program of their own-and soon-probably before the G.O.P. National Committee meets in Chicago on Dec. 7. It also started the first hot-stove-league talk of 1948 presidential candidates...
Where General Patton might be in the next three hours he himself did not know. If Patton got a hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...
...with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch of the baby's skin proved he was right: the child was allergic to the hair lacquer its mother used to keep her hair sleekly stiff. Within a week after the mother began to let hair lacquer alone, the baby's skin...
...William Henry Chickering, TIME war correspondent in the South Pacific, filed his last dispatch: "It is my hunch that [the Japs at Lingayen] won't react very favorably, may even retreat to the hills and make our initial success easy. . . ." His hunch was right, but he wasn't there to see for himself. On Jan. 6 he was killed by enemy air action in Lingayen Gulf. He was standing on the bridge of a warship; he and the British liaison officer, General Lumsden (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), were killed at the same moment...
Bernard Gimbel is playing another hunch. He intends to try to keep Gimbel inventories at their normal three-months stock. His hunch: prewar standards in merchandise will return so slowly that he will have plenty of time to unload his substitute goods at no great loss...