Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fishy Sound. Dieckmann had a hunch that Diderot had never really destroyed the manuscript of his great philosophical dialogue, D'Alembert's Dream, though one contemporary declared that Diderot had burned it and another said he had torn it up. "The whole thing sounded fishy to me," says Dieckmann...
Thirty minutes later, one of the youths returned to the shop with the tie that had started all the trouble. Stating that he had seen them get his friend, he put up no resistance when Patrolman Brutti returned to the store on a hunch and made the arrest...
Theodore Morrison, now heading English A, has run up against the placement idea before. He rejected it because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead...
That brings us up to tomorrow, and I stand here before you to declare that Art Valpey's first season will not be anything like Horween's or Casey's or Harlow's. This statement rests solidly on an uninformed, sentimental hunch. Besides that, you don't often draw four of a kind...
...Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece answered his telephone at 7:40 a.m. in his home at Johnson City, Tenn., confirmed a reporter's hunch that he would run for the Senate. Said Reece: "It is my duty to be available...