Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First is his brand of humor, which Parsons thinks appeals to most people in academic circles. He has a hunch that the Republican attack on Stevenson's humor may backfire radically. "It is one of the glories of the American people that they have more of a sense of humor than most nations," he said. "They don't, like a man who can't take a joke, even if it's on himself...
...These were hurried little sketches scratched out on scraps of paper and backs of envelopes: dumpy old ladies sitting spraddled with fatigue, a drunken man slumped in a chair, London swells leaning languidly against a bar. Each took but a few skilled lines and shadows to get across the hunch of a shoulder, the gnarled stiffness of old limbs, the suppleness of young ones...
...doubleheader between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. He sat patiently under an umbrella after rain stopped play in the fourth inning, munched a hot dog, and had a bottle of pop. But after an hour, Weather Prophet Truman gave up and left. His hunch was right. Another hour passed before the sun came out and the game was resumed...
...name of Jack Shore. Making the rounds of Manhattan's auction galleries three months ago, Dealer Shore had come across an interesting painting of a young woman done on six small pieces of canvas sewed together. He picked it up for $100, and then on a hunch showed it to Maurice H. Goldblatt, director of Notre Dame's university art gallery. Director Goldblatt's verdict: the old painting is a long-lost portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by the 16th century Renaissance master Bartolommeo Veneto. Possible value...
...horse was a hunch. He's trallin' the bunch. And then from seventh like a bolt from the blue, he's passed the others, they're lettin' him through...