Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychokinesis (no doubt his trade name for a hunch) is a-little inane, a great deal beyond ordinary, garden variety crapshooting. Miss Dale's figures showing 171 hits better than pure chance out of 31,104 rolls, rather than proving PK, could just as well be 171 hits worse than pure chance...
...characteristic Leo Durocher play: a combination of hunch and maneuver. The Dodger manager figured that by starting right-hander Branca he would draw the Cardinal left-handed hitting power into the lineup; then he would switch, after one batter, to a well-warmed-up lefty. But Branca blew down the lead-off man with such an assortment of stuff that Durocher decided to leave him in a while. Nine innings later, 20-year-old Branca had struck out nine Cardinals, given up only three hits, beaten the Cards 5-0 and reduced Brooklyn's rabid cheering section to happy...
...week's end the response to Shawn's hunch, and Hersey's restrained, first-rate reporting, was the biggest thing in New Yorker history. Book Critic Lewis Gannett called Hersey's piece "the best reporting . . . of this war." The New York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne...
...hunch was right. Women flocked to buy the handsome packages with the masculine names ("Chukker," "Steeplechase," etc.) for their men-some of whom finally took to getting the stuff for themselves. In the $50,000,000-a-year industry, Courtley has become one of the leaders in class, one of the big six in volume of sales (the other five: Seaforth, Sportsman, Shulton, Yardley, Lenth...
Planes zoomed overhead, but only the hunch-players were reminded of a 50-to-1 shot called Airborne. There was a hush as three stately maroon Daimlers rolled up the track to leave their passengers at the Royal Box. The whisper "They're off!" sounded as it always...