Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to produce. Since the course this afternoon will be a full mile, instead of the three-quarter mile of the qualifying heats, no predictions are possible as to which of the three crews--Adams, Eliot, and Winthrop--will wind up College champion. Partisans of all three are equally certain of victory...
Under this cozy arrangement, the base prices of cement were fixed at certain "basing point" plants across the country. Beyond the base price the buyer also paid freight costs from the nearest basing point plant. All cement plants in the U.S. thus charged the same price for cement laid down at any one job. The plants closer to the consumer than the basing point plant tacked on a "phantom freight" which was more than the shipping cost; the plants farther away charged a freight which was less (and took less profit...
...mission as weird in its way as the quest of Ahab for the white whale. Hennessey is killed in the landing. The others take part in checking a Japanese assault across a narrow stream, get drunk, shoot prisoners, and prowl among the Japanese corpses for souvenirs. They are certain that their wives back home are unfaithful to them, from their own success in seducing other men's wives, and from the number of letters from the States which arrive, telling them that all is over...
...concocted adventure story. A bilingual beauty named Armande Herne, stranded in Beirut in 1941, piques the curiosity of both French and British Intelligence. Odd though it seems, she is neither a poule de luxe nor a Nazi agent-just a lonely woman. No sooner have the security police made certain of this than they succeed in putting ideas in her pretty head: she should use her charm to strike a blow for Britain...
...wonder the government regarded Henry as "an unsafe man" and consistently refused to promote him beyond a certain point. Much wonder that he was able to say, "When I sit in the garden in the cool of the evening ... I feel as if I never could go home. India has burnt itself into me and I dread the cold and wet country of my birth...