Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighth. Club: France. Nickname: Parisians. Manager: Pétain. Comment: farm club for Germany; weak most every position. Predictions: looks hopeless; cinch for eighth. Odds...
That switch in itself will help industry toward the President's goal, but will not cinch it. While few businessmen last week said it couldn't be done, all could foresee difficulties, began appraising the limiting factors...
Viscount Halifax perched atop a tank, toured a proving ground at Eddystone, Pa., clutching a gun snout for support, later whipped around the field at 40 m.p.h. inside the tank, declared the posting was a cinch...
...year before, Shaw shot in front early. At the 100-mile mark, he was passed by another Maserati, owned by onetime Driver Lou Moore and driven by little Mauri Rose. When Rose was forced to drop out after 152 miles because of carburetor trouble, it looked like a cinch for Shaw. Then, rounding a turn on the 151st lap (380 miles), Shaw's car threw a tire, did a triple spin, crashed into the retaining wall. Shaw was not seriously hurt and the crowd soon forgot about...
...cinch it had been. His Esquire, launched in 1933-modeled on Apparel Arts with the addition of sexy cartoons and articles by big literary names such as Ernest Hemingway-was on the newsstands in December 1937 with its fattest issue ever-including 155 pages of ads. His Coronet, launched a year before (1936), was set to invade the profitable field occupied by Reader's Digest, and he was about to launch a newsmagazine to cut himself in on another field. Esquire, his big moneymaker, had become the darling of the barbershops and just hit a peak circulation...