Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Evans (who has done no acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
...hunch is your Art editor slipped that one in apurpose to catch the pickup...
Admiral Darlan confirmed the hunch that U.S. Admiral William Daniel Leahy had a good deal to do with the African campaign. As long as a year ago, said Darlan, he and Admiral Leahy-then Ambassador to Vichy, now President Roosevelt's personal Chief of Staff-discussed U.S. intervention in Europe and its effect on the French. Admiral Darlan said that if the U.S. had then had 500,000 equipped troops available in Europe, "we could have acted differently...
...Many bacteria need another B factor, pantothenic acid, to thrive. So Bacteriologist Henry McIlwain of Sheffield, England, reasoned that bacteria might likewise mistake a compound called pantoyltaurine for its chemical relative, pantothenic acid. His hunch was right, and his discovery may well lead to development of a second group of bacteria-hoaxing chemicals comparable to the sulfa-group...