Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power, Mikoyan's instinct made him stick with Nikita. In June, when even Bulganin and the aged Voroshilov deserted Khrushchev and swelled the Presidium's vote to 7 to 4 against him, Mikoyan backed the party's First Secretary and proved to have followed the right hunch. Within 48 hours Khrushchev, using his party machine in exactly the same fashion as Stalin did before him, summoned henchmen from all over the Soviet Union to a Central Committee Plenum that reversed the Presidium decision...
...Just a Hunch. Since the Near East used cuneiform and the Greeks and Minoans a linear script, most scholars automatically assumed that there could be no connection between the two ways of writing. But Scholar Gordon, a Ph.D. in Semitic languages from the University of Pennsylvania, had a hunch there was. "When I started this research," he admits, "I was merely setting out to see whether my notion was correct. At first I was frustrated at every turn because I thought that Phoenician-or West Semitic-was the language root. But Phoenician only seemed to fit the puzzle in certain...
...Diplomat Adolf A. Berle's hunch is right. Communist Russia has been operating its foreign policy by localized five-year plans-1945-50 for Europe, 1950-55 for Asia, 1955 on for the Middle East. Nasser let his new Soviet equipment be chewed up too quickly, and the Eisenhower Doctrine, which followed the Suez invasion, was a definite check to Soviet Middle East ambitions. Nonetheless the Russians were on the go again last week in the Middle East. Items...
...beginning to feel their age and, if they have not found religion, at least have been brushed by the supernatural. The title story deals with a former U.S. Army pilot, penniless in Paris, who refuses $25,000 to pull a job for a smuggler because of a superstitious hunch that the job would be fatal for him. When a less imaginative friend succeeds, the flyer knows that fear, and not a hunch, has dictated his refusal...
Allen's hunch was right: no one recognized Strickland. Working up to 20 hours a day, he toured bookie joints by day, gambling houses by night. His technique was simple. "You have to sit there at the bar and drink a beer or two or they'll get suspicious," he says. "I tried martinis at first, but you can't drink many of them and know what you're doing. I've got beer running out of my ears...