Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Atlantic beat is no cinch. Squalls and typhoons range the African coast. All planes are 3,500-6,000 Ib. overloaded (extra gas, rations, war goods) at takeoff. Most African airports are still under construction-nothing to help a three-point landing. Even so, the loss record is good: about 5% at first, a bare...
...pitching assignments were announced before the team left Boston last night, but is very likely that Mort Waldstein will be commissioned to rout the E. I. B. L. champs at Princeton tomorrow. Last year Waldstein beat the Tigers 7 to 4, hitting a ninth-inning homer to cinch the game. He lost the second half of the Princeton series, 6 to 4, although he held them to seven hits...
...headed Dunster House Junior, who won the New Englands last month, took both of his first two rounds from Thomas Larner of Washington, D. C. and was reckoned a cinch to win until the climactic punch in the last 30 seconds of the third and final chapter...
...minutes the nurse let Vag get up, and he was surprised to discover that he felt better than he had before. Shucks, that was a cinch, thought Vag. "Thank you very much for your contribution," said the nurse as he walked out. "Don't mention it," he replied benignly. Just as he got to the door, however, he could not resist the temptation. He turned, struck a pose, and declared to the world at large, "My only regret is that I have but one pint to give to my country...
...even the most cynical politician suspected that Governor Stassen was trying to improve his chances for the 1942 gubernatorial election; he was a cold cinch for re-election anyway. But the statement spurred all three of Minnesota's parties (Republican, Democrat, Farmer-Labor) into sudden frenzy. If Stassen is re-elected and then goes off to war the following spring, the man elected Lieutenant Governor next November will be Minnesota's Governor within six months. And, though even cynics admitted that Governor Stassen's patriotism was perfectly virtuous, they also pointed out that that virtue might well...