Word: hunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch paid off. Writing in Nature, he and his associates report that they also found large and significant changes in the relative velocity of P and S waves prior to more serious tremors. Furthermore, they note, the duration and intensity of the effect-which changes the relative velocity of the waves...
...hunch that two-term Republican Senator Jack Miller, 56, was vulnerable this time around, Iowa Congressman John Culver made plans to challenge him. But Culver lost heart at the last minute and the nomination went to his administrative assistant, Dick Clark, 43. Clark, though a political unknown, ran such a skillful campaign that he will now outshine his former boss as Iowa's junior Senator...
Although Hitler tried to portray his early years as serene, Langer postulated from Hitler's character and writings that his father must have been a drunken, menacing brute. (Interviews in the 1950s with neighbors of the Hitler family substantiated this professional hunch, Historian Waite reports.) Because children view the universe in the light of their home experience, Hitler probably saw the whole world as "extremely dangerous, uncertain and unjust." This was the origin of his sense of powerlessness...
...more glamorous than the presidential candidate. Kennedy had spent the convention week sailing in his 54-ft. sloop off Hyannisport, repeating insistently that he would refuse any national office. Among his numerous reasons: his family's concern for his safety, anticipation of highly personal campaign attacks about Chappaquiddick, a hunch that 1972 would not be a Democratic year, and a sure knowledge that the vice presidency would be a dreary, frustrating job. "Within two years," said a friend, "Vice President Kennedy would be a sad-eyed, overweight drunk...
...When Nixon announced the mining of the North Vietnamese ports two weeks ago, he had no assurances on how the Kremlin might react. The Soviets had been told by Kissinger that Nixon was considering drastic action-but they did not know the specifics. Nixon's own hunch was that Moscow would postpone the meeting. But after an initial silence came the relatively mild Soviet denunciation of the President's move, followed a few days later by short notices in Russian newspapers quoting Press Secretary Ron Ziegler as saying that the President was preparing to leave for Moscow. After...