Word: hunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause" on a variety of specific grounds, such as opposing the death penalty in capital cases or simply admitting prejudice against either side. Because bias is hard to prove, both sides can also invoke a limited number of "peremptory" challenges (no explanation needed) that eliminate jurors on the merest hunch or suspicion of prejudice. Thus jurors may be rejected, rather than selected, in hopes that the twelve survivors are indeed biased-in favor of either side...
...joined the eye section of the University of Alabama Hospitals soon after World War II. He also set up private practice. One of his first patients was the teen-age granddaughter of wealthy Shipbuilder Robert I. Ingalls. Dr. Callahan straightened the girl's crossed eyes, and on a hunch sent no bill. When Ingalls insisted on a settlement, Dr. Callahan told him that he would prefer some help toward starting a nonprofit hospital for eye patients. "How much?" asked Ingalls suspiciously. "Mr. Ingalls," said the doctor with studied boldness, "you're not noted for being a generous giver...
When the Post & Times-Star ran that story last September, Editor Dick Thornburg had a hunch there might be more to tell. He instructed Reporter Jim Horner, 32, to case the probate court to see if it was involved in any other high-fee hanky-panky. Horner has been on the story ever since, and his byline has been on the front page almost daily for over two months...
...Heart Skipped." Could the polyptych be by Giotto and come from the Badia? Vasari had described such a work on the high altar. Later cleaning proved Procacci's hunch correct; handwriting analysis narrowed the date of the sticker to about 1810. Procacci was then able to reconstruct what had happened: the altarpiece had been removed in 1810 by Napoleon's troops from the Badia; then in 1815, through a clerical mistake, it had been returned instead to Santa Croce. Digging through the old floor plans of the Badia, Procacci made a second discovery. The church had been rebuilt...
...notion that mosquitoes bite snakes made most scientists laugh. But not the University of Utah's imaginative Microbiologist Louis P. Gebhardt Jr. By following up a hunch, Gebhardt has just climaxed an eight-year effort to trace the life cycle of a virus that causes one form of deadly brain inflammation commonly known as sleeping sickness...