Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irrepressible Hunch. Despite Chou's implicit admission that things were not so rosy as Peking's inventive statisticians made out, Red China was obviously, at a lower rate than the boasts, pushing forward industrially. The people might suffer, but for centuries China's people have known hunger and oppression; the people might be resentful, but never before, under any tyranny, had there been so systematic and efficient a thought-control system, so vast a network of informers patrolling home, church, school and work place...
Payroll Pay Dirt. Then, still plugging away at his list of freshmen Congressmen with relatives on the payroll, Trimble struck pay dirt when he called Mrs. Randall Harmon on a hunch. He hit on precisely the right question: "Incidentally, where is your office?" Mrs. Harmon's answer: "Why, on the front porch." An Indianapolis reporter later wrote that Harmon was so enraged by Trimble's story that he waved a pistol and vowed: "I figure on throwing the fear of God into that Vance Trimble...
...graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, was a modest and unassuming concert pianist. Her careful, reflective playing of 18th century music was well received in Europe, but Pianist Pleasants' lack of temperament and color made her unsuited to the more popular romantics. Then her husband played a hunch. Henry Pleasants, onetime music critic for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and since 1952 a Foreign Service officer in Austria and Germany, thought that Virginia's real forte might be the harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds almost the same whether whacked or stroked) and mainly requires delicate, precise...
...basis of this excellent record, Dartmouth must be rated a solid two-touchdown favorite in this afternoon's contest. Still, the Crimson is physically and psychologically prepared for an allout effort this afternoon; and there are some "hunch-players" in the vicinity who have got that feeling that an upset may be in the making. 3 Probable Starting Lineups DARTMOUTH HARVARD Hibbs LE Keohane Bowlby LT Shaunessy Boye LG Keating Colehower C Foster Krutsch RG Anderson Horschman RT Briggs Palmer RE Hershon Gundy QB Ravenel Crouthamel LH Boulris Burke RH Lawson Hepburn FB Halaby
...watch U.N. representatives at work on a grave international problem. If the members of that "peace-loving audience" of popular programs truly cared to preserve the pleasant status quo of their lives, they would do well to pay less attention to the meaningless escapism of Dotto, Play Your Hunch and For Love or Money...