Word: hunch
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Years ago Dr. Lord had a hunch that there was more to lead poisoning than anemia, constipation, paralysis, loss of appetite, nervous disorders and deposits of lead in the long bones and along the gums. She noticed that some lead-poisoned babies differed psychologically from normal babies, patiently traced the effects in the school careers of 20 children, of whom 18 had been paint eaters...
What More Do You Want? RKO's newly installed President Charles Koerner saved the day. At considerable risk he scraped the bottom of the RKO barrel to finance the film. But the box-office response immediately vindicated Ed Golden's original hunch which he used in his sales talk with uninterested Hollywood: "Here's a picture that's got real exploitation value. It's got sterilization. It's got a lethal chamber. It's got kids. What more do you want...
...Correspondent John Hersey, who was aboard his B26, kneeling between Co-pilot Bolzoni's seat and the pilot's. "Usually you picture a capital defended strongly," Bolzoni said. But gradually Bolzoni's interest in what lay ahead got the better of his nervousness. Hersey saw him hunch forward and strain to see ahead when they were still a good hour away from the Italian coast...
...Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame, "that I did not care where we landed. . . . I belong to the land and not to the sea or air." Reporting on the wartime U. S., she mentioned the hairpin and elastic shortage, but could give no word on girdles because, unlike the late John Barrymore, "I don't wear...
Franklin Roosevelt had won nothing. His Administration had underestimated the danger, had relied on labor's no-strike pledge and on a wishful hunch that the United Mine Workers rank & file would not follow Lewis. It had let the coal strike grow into such an issue that neither side could back down...