Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Hawkins of South Gate, Calif, has a fearsome red beard. He met eight Japs, killed three of them. They shot him in both sides of his chest. Supposedly dying, Private Hawkins was removed to a ship. Early next morning someone found him walking the decks. "I had a hunch that if I got up and took a walk I'd live," Private Hawkins explained. He was right...
Their moment came suddenly. On the morning of June 4, the squadron, on its commander's hunch, left the main U.S. forces and flew west from Midway to hunt the enemy. They found him: an overwhelming force of three carriers screened by a fleet of cruisers and destroyers. There was no time to wait for fighter protection. Squadron No. 8 said the formal Navy communiqué later, "proceeded to attack at once without protection or assistance of any kind...
Quetzalcoatl Vindicated. The finding of ancient Tula is a feather in the pith helmets of two Mexican archeologists who followed their hunch it was there in the face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos...
Last year, on the hunch that testosterone propionate increases the flow of blood in the heart, Dr. Lesser injected minuscule amounts of the hormone into the muscles of 24 angina patients (including four women), whose ages ranged from 40 to 77. Injections were given every second to fifth day, depending on the number and severity of the attacks. After receiving from five to 25 injections, all the patients improved. Some had no attacks for as long as twelve months after their last injection. (The women did not do as well...
...learning Spanish in El Paso schools: "They don't teach us very much. We're really a bunch of parrots. ... I have a hunch the way they're doing it is not very good. . . . Speaking of school, it may surprise you to know that it comes from a Greek word meaning, of all things, leisure...