Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feeling. On the general subject of peace between East and West, the President had a hopeful hunch. "George Patton used to say that no man is a soldier unless he has a sixth sense," he recalled, "and then he would describe that sixth sense . . . For him it seemed to work. It was suddenly to make your decisions on your own guess and throw all of the G-2 people out the window. Now I confess I have a feeling that things are on the upswing. But I can take every single favorable point and balance it by something that doesn...
...Hunch. In firing on Eisenhower, Johnson was acting on a hunch. He and many of his fellow Democrats feel that somehow, sometime, somewhere, a paper will turn up showing that Eisenhower made recommendations about Soviet participation in the Pacific...
...companies, got their first hint of Mexican sulphur 15 years ago when Ashton picked up a 1904 Shell Oil Co. exploration report. It told of salt domes on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that often indicates sulphur. It took six years before they could prove their hunch. Starting to drill near San Cristóbal in 1942, they were slowed down by the war, by an unfriendly and suspicious local population, even by the malaria-filled jungle itself, where torrential rains turn everything into a quagmire six months of the year. The first two wells were dry holes...
...article "The Sheltering Sky" may well have been written by a sightseeing tourist . . . What is wrong with "houses built under the reign of Francis I?" I have lived in just such a house . . . The plumbing was perfect. Who invented the saga of the French plumbing? I have a hunch it was a nation frustrated for having nothing but gadgets to hold onto in the emptiness of a hectic life devoted to dollar making...
...cases and to work out a sensible program of action on the problem. Although the elusive and yet extremely important quality of good judgment is not easily learned in school, judgement based on habits of this careful analysis is likely to be very much better than judgment based on hunch or snap conclusion. Consequently, the individual's ability to tackle a problem and reach sensible judgments should be advanced in important degree by his graduate study...