Word: hunch
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...have had time to learn anything else." That was the voice of a past America, which admired the man of letters but adored the man of action. It was an America that believed in the self-taught pragmatist, the graduate of life, the tinkerer who achieved progress through hunch and persistence. The intellectual was, at worst, distrusted as arrogant and impractical; at best, he was respected as a cultural adornment and considered all right-in his place...
...Mouth. Finally Honeywell settled on the astronaut's mouth. Lip and tongue motions might do the job, but there is not much room in a space helmet, and extra equipment placed there would probably interfere with necessary speech over the radio. And the Honeywell men had a strong hunch that most astronauts would object to apparatus hitched to their lips or tongue...
...shimmers with tension in the crowded room. All eyes are focused on the action at the tables. The players hunch over the board, sweating with strain; and when they leave, whether in victory or defeat, their hands shake for minutes...
...between Muybridge's galloping horses and Gjon Mili's stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch to a generation familiar with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings...
Father of Medicine. Playing his educated hunch, Professor Emery dug into the desert and discovered another buried mastaba. When he uncovered its southern burial shaft, he found it filled with thousands of mummified ibises. The bodies of the long-legged birds were wrapped in cloth, stuffed into pottery jars, and piled up like bricks. Digging deeper in the ground, Emery found an amazing network of ancient tunnels, most of them piled to their roofs with ibis mummies. Since the ibis was an Egyptian symbol of wisdom, they indicated to Emery that somewhere near by had stood the long-lost shrine...