Word: hunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomore honors English class and the movie projector begins to whir. Act III, Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice. There is no discussion and only a few questions about the plot. The 18 students and their teacher all hunch silently in their seats. Down the hall, three more English classes, packed in a small theater, are also viewing films. Complains one teacher: "I really get caught up in my subject matter. But some teachers think that's weird. The attitude in the faculty lounge is, 'Does anyone have a film...
...assignment for TIME when the hijacked plane arrived there from Southern Yemen early Monday morning. That day, they photographed the grim scene at the airport as the body of the slain pilot was removed from the plane. They then decided to wait around at the field, on a hunch that Flight 181's four-day odyssey was about to reach a climax. Reports Leroy: "We knew something was coming up at 1:30 a.m. when the Somali police pushed us to a corner of the airport right behind the first-aid center. Later, it happened: gunfire echoed through...
DARTMOUTH AT YALE--Basically, we're talking about a hunch. Dartmouth and Harvard win today, the Crimson beats the Big Green next Saturday in Cambridge, and quicker than you can say "Paul Lynde to block," you know who is in first place. You think I'm a dreamer? You're right. Dartmouth 18, Yale...
...thrusts them back into the picture as a not-so-subtle afterthought. The policemen somehow fasten onto the idea that the husband--long ago presumed to have been the victim of a murder they cannot prove--might still be alive and kicking, but how they arrive at this uncanny hunch is never fully explained...
...good as, or better than, those obtained with traditional techniques. Says University of Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Jarl Dyrud: "One of the best ways of treating depression is by forcing activity. Of course, you have no way of telling which is cart and which is horse, but I have a hunch that a lot of this jogging exercise makes very good sense as an antidepressant...