Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store, had to have a lot of help from relatives to pay the bills.) It looked as though Billy had cerebral palsy, but recently, at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, tests showed no damage to Billy's brain. A visiting British neurologist thereupon had a hunch...
Fingers & Eyes. A fortnight ago, acting on the Briton's hunch, Mrs. Lucas had a prescription filled for neostigmine. That cost only 35?. Then the visiting doctor, who has no license to practice in California, got a staff physician to give Billy the injection. While Mrs. Lucas held Billy on her lap, the British doctor waited to see what would happen...
...hunch was an outgrowth of the containment policy, the essence of which is that if the Russians are kept from further expansion they will eventually become easier to deal with. Kennan, principal author of the containment policy, tends to see the Politburo as a projection of historical Czarist policy, gives a lesser place in his appraisal to the dynamics of Communism's drive for world conquest. Shortly before he went to Moscow last May, Kennan said: "I will be happy if the work at Moscow gives me a chance to make a contribution to the reduction of existing tensions...
...make the most of a chance for negotiations, should it come. Just why Acheson and Kennan thought that the Russians were about ready for a settlement is not clear: there was no concrete evidence. Senior State Department officials now admit that it was just a hopeful hunch...
...Coming Home. Kennan, who favored keeping the channels open for negotiation with Russia, found the channels plugged: he got virtually no chance to talk privately to any Russian officials. Early last month, Acheson seemed to give up hope that his original hunch was right. In a Kansas City speech, he said that the Soviet hate campaign "contradicts [Russian] pretensions of peace and pushes off still further a beginning upon the peaceful settlement by negotiation of problems between the Soviet Union and the outside world." When they heard that passage in Acheson's speech, some Washington hands predicted that Kennan...