Word: hunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deep in Guatemala's Petén rain forest, five men dig into a curious mound in the earth. They suspect that an ancient tomb lies somewhere beneath it, and before long, their hunch is confirmed. Just below the surface, they uncover a huge limestone slab, or stela, inscribed with Mayan symbols. A little deeper they find the tomb, filled with jade and alabaster jewelry, brilliantly colored ceramic platters and other priceless antiquities created by Mayan craftsmen long before Columbus reached the shores of the New World...
...have a hunch how some of the mistakes occurred. If I may resort to the reconstructed quotation technique everyone seems to be using with such financial success these days, it "probably" went something like this...
...latest find. But after unearthing nothing more than a few distinctly non-manlike animal remains, they moved on to Olduvai Gorge, 25 miles to the north, where their fossil discoveries were to push back man's lineage by at least a million years. In 1975, on a hunch that "we didn't look hard enough," Mary returned to Laetolil. She soon began finding jawbones, teeth and other fossils that were clearly of hominid (manlike) origin. She and her coworkers, including her son Philip, also discovered thousands of fossilized tracks under a layer of ancient volcanic ash that had been eroded...
...detail quite interesting. The inhabitants of a small town in India--believing a visit by the stellar spooks to be a sign from the great one--created a four-note jingle to sing in honor of the other-wordly visitors. The expert, which his amazing conjectural powers, has a hunch that this tune (now played incessantly on Boston radio stations) is a musical "hello" from the aliens. He convinces his colleagues at an international UFO conference to support a project to send the four-note tune into outer space via radio telescope...
...early 1960s, but the gas proved elusive. Formed 65 million years ago in northern Louisiana and swept southward by ancient rivers, it lay hidden under a layer of limestone that distorted the echoes of shock waves by which geologists map underground formations. But a Chevron geologist's hunch, confirmed by tests using computer techniques, led prospectors to a swampy field on the Parlange plantation. When the drill bit spun into a zone of extreme pressure 21,345 ft. down, the gas and steam crushed the well casing, ripped out a blowout preventer at the top of the well...