Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions he raised, was not likely to settle the matter. Always ready for a crack at the professors, New York City's Daily News hopefully noted: "It looks as if the Buckley blast will kick up fierce rows on many campuses besides Yale's . . . Our own hunch is that he's a good deal more than half right...
...Democratic side, he said he "had a hunch the tide of public opinion on Secretary of State Dean Acheson has turned...
...people." No doubt the statement seemed true to him at that dramatic moment-because it was just the right statement for that moment. Swayed by many principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number of Jews from death and torture, chuckling playfully as he did so: "We had better put up a sign...
...President. As a longtime Eisenhower backer, Pundit Roberts had some familiar things to say: "Events in Europe will determine if he will run . . . I don't speak for him, but if rearming and rewelding Western Europe together . . . is well along its way, it's my guess and hunch that Ike would accept an honest-to-goodness draft for the presidency-not because he wants it, but on grounds of duty." But Roberts also had a new gem to drop-a straight-from-head-quarters answer to the political question of the year. Said Roberts: "General Eisenhower has told...
...China, my hunch is that it will pay to keep behind the official Chinese Communist position-far enough not to be covered by the same label-but enough ahead of the active Chinese liberals to be noticeable . . . For the U.S.S.R.-back their international policy in general, but without using their slogans and above all without giving them or anybody else an impression of 'subservience...