Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice her out of the shadows...
Logic is only one part of decision making, Rowan contends; it is often the daring, instinctual leap that can make all the difference. "Hunch is an odious word to the professional manager," he writes. "It's a horseplayer's . . . term, rife with imprecision and unpredictability." Yet the hunch continues to be a major managerial tool. Salting his argument with lively anecdotes and conversations with some 70 chief executives, Rowan makes an impressive and entertaining case...
...Once you've been out of a college setting for a number of years, you tend to respond to situations on a hunch. Here are findings that say that many of the hunches are correct ones," says one principals...
...hard to know. He's a pal of Jesse Helms, and Jesse Helms has suggested that the news he sees on CBS is not news that pleases him. I have a hunch that I understand what kind of news would please him, and I'm sure that I would not want to work for that kind of a news operation...
...hunch before the start of the season that if we got everyone together we would do well," he said of the men's team "But again it's the freshmen who have come through...