Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general atmosphere of gloom. But I had a hunch, and it was the right one, that when I got out here I would find that you people had your chins up. ... I get a picture which reassures me as to the future of the so-called Great Plains drought area-reassurances of the fact that the Government can and must...
...Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis J. Cadek, a hardboiled, barrel-bellied police captain who had been 30 years on the Cleveland force. Other property and bank accounts under various names were linked to Captain Cadek, who was soon indicted and brought to trial to explain how he came by a fortune...
...accomplishments, Dorothy was too independent a character to let Bennett regulate her, intimates that she domesticated him more than he revised her. They never agreed on the subject of her intuition. On one occasion he stubbornly gambled away 1,000 francs in an effort to show her that her hunch about a certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know you are not capable of it, save under great...
About 15 years ago Dr. Coffey noticed the research which young Dr. John Davis Humber performed on the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal glands. With Dr. Humber, Dr. Coffey developed a hunch that the cortex of the adrenals governed the natural growth of all the cells of the body, that for lack of an adequate amount of the cortical hormone cancers developed...
Then Chairman O'Connor had a hunch. In 1933, he recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...