Word: reckons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie has it, Hitler erred not in war but only in love, when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...rhinoceros has no political significance. It was chosen as an identifying symbol because rhinoceroses are rare in Burma and hence presumably hard to duplicate. That, anyway, is how the Burmans reckon...
...selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real-estate prices as much as 20%. With the U.S. demanding all-out farm production for defense, and with high prices guaranteed by federal support programs, most farmers reckon that the price of their land will go up a lot more...
...singing was inspired: "I reckon I shall never see, a poem as nice as this here tree. A tree that looks at God all day, because it cannot run away...
This has the ring of a basic truth, and it will take courage to use it as a foundation for our thinking-but I reckon we have the courage to think as well...