Word: hunch
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...climb the four flights up to the IAB gym, expect to see Crimson captain Donld Fleming explode off a mini-mini slump that has pestered him during the early part of the season. That's just a hunch, sports...
...narrow gully bakes like an oven in the fall sun, and the canyon that engulfs it is silent, save for an occasional magpie's cry. Under a juniper, two cowboys hunch for shade and wait for a signal...
Takfir wa Hijra is only one of an unknown number of fanatical Islamic groups that permeate wide sections of Egyptian society. Says Political Scientist Ali E. Hillal Dessouki of Cairo University: "My hunch is that there are many groups of ten or 15 people, organized into very small cells. They are clandestine, secretive, underground and not public. They are certainly amassing weapons...
...There is a swaggering style, a macho flair to O'Hare's ace controllers. In near darkness, they hunch over their radarscopes like teen-age boys playing electronic games. Their faces glow in the greenish-yellow light, as each sweep of the radar reveals a constantly changing configuration of planes. They have developed their own special mystique. They chain smoke and drink countless cups of coffee while placating their upset stomachs with chalky Maalox tablets from the big glass candy jars that are standard in every control room...
...other ways that make her both an interesting subject of a book and a misleading example of the modern researcher. Unlike most, she is an intellectual pariah. "Her position on Hodgkin's disease was, for the five years of this book. a minority one. She simply worked on a hunch. albeit one in accord with many observations. but still just a vision. But while she has been proved correct in some ways, most scientists do not put themselves out on a limb as Dr. Brito did. Brito bravely defends her attitude. "To be frightened of making mistakes...