Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had mustered up all the power of his office to make their return to Washington a private affair. He complains often and bitterly about the intrusions of the presidency on his family life. Democrats who argue that the President will not run again in 1952 base their hunch principally on Bess Truman's well-known antipathy to life in a goldfish bowl...
There is lethargy, dependence on government handouts, press conferences, tips and gossip. Too many stories are written on the formula of "fact-plus-hunch-plus-opinion," notably by the pundits and columnists. Says Columnist Doris Fleeson, the capital's top woman reporter: "There's too little reporting, too much thumb-sucking in this town." Many correspondents are not in Washington to report; they are there to give their papers prestige, run errands for the publisher and lobby for his pet ideas, or to make routine checks...
...long-term "insurance," as it had long insisted, but to clear the way for the building of a huge TV center right on the moviemakers' home grounds. And when NBC also hired Henry Ginsberg, Paramount's former production boss, as a "general consultant," Hollywood had a hunch that NBC's projected Burbank TV center would be a movie factory, with Ginsberg sparking its output...
...Greentree two-for-one entry (Hall of Fame and Big Stretch), which finished 9th and 18th in the Kentucky Derby. But a lot of the crowd's wiser money (4-1) believed in Burch and Bold for three good reasons: 1) Jockey Eddie Arcaro; 2) the sound hunch that Bold could have had a better ride when he lost to Alerted by a neck in the Preakness Prep earlier in the week; and 3) the fact that Bold had never run a bad race (three firsts and two seconds in five starts). As it turned out, the smart money...
...correspondent and is a special favorite of the President's, went to work on his best Administration sources: Why not release the conference records of the Truman-MacArthur meeting on Wake Island last October? He knew that the President himself would probably have to okay his request. His hunch worked. Leviero was called to an undisclosed rendezvous and given the official Wake Island transcript. The Times had a scoop; the Administration had an audience without seeming to have said a word. Details: ¶ MacArthur, said Leviero's story, told the President at Wake Island that he thought neither...