Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellows, any of you in the old Bronze Rhinoceros's course?" He stared at them intently, hoping for confirmation of his hunch. The students gave each other curious glances, but did not reply. Biff was not discouraged, for he knew he was right. "Yeah," he went on with great seriousness, "I think the world of the old Bronze Rhinoceros." Now the young men increased their pace markedly and in a few moments left the detective behind. "They must have been freshmen," thought Biff, undismayed. "But this time I'm right. I'll track down that Bronze Rhinoceros...
Farm Vigil. To confront Powers with these questions, the press staged a manhunt of its own. The trail was picked up near Easton, Md., by an Associated Press stringer named Mary Swain, who had a hunch that Powers might be in a nearby estate called Ashford Farms that the Government had bought some years ago and used for mysterious purposes. Armed with binoculars, she set up a vigil in a lane adjoining the farm, noted a great coming and going of cars. One night, a blue station wagon carrying six men sped out of the gate and down the road...
...chemical acts against the virus without damaging cells. Such a part of the body is the eye. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that since the cornea, a kind of plastic window, has no blood supply, its cells might be more receptive to the effects of the drug. Kaufman's hunch, tested in rabbits, proved right in humans...
...have a hunch that my former roommate, after reading this epic on himself, must have exclaimed loud and clear...
When it comes to making a choice between her mother and brother, Eugenia chooses the mother. Rather a despised parent on whom she can exercise her hatred than a brother who. by her passionate standards, is not a man. "I followed a kind of hunch, an instinctive, obsessive feeling," says Author Cicellis, ''that Orestes was reluctant to exercise vengeance, not really interested, and that Electra was much closer to her mother than she thought...