Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Director. With two of the year's best films to his credit, Kazan was a cinch for directorial honors. He also seemed assured of equal applause from Broadway: he had directed two of the year's outstanding stage hits: Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Kazan, 38, in whose work imagination and taste are vigorously combined, was clearly Man of the Year in that vague enclave known as Show Business...
...whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's legal section in World War II. Most knowing Tennesseans figured that Judge Mitchell, with Mister Crump's support, was a cinch...
...America Conference? For the past two weeks, in a turnstile war in New York City, the new league has outdrawn the old. This week, 39,012 cash customers went to Yankee Stadium to see the talented New York Yankees roll by the Buffalo Bills, 35-13, and cinch All-America's eastern division championship...
...supporters kicked and fought last week over plans to take a poll of presidential choices at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention in Madison. They were sure, or thought they were sure, that Harold Stassen's workers had thought up the poll, and that it would be a cinch for a Stassen victory. Dewey's cohorts even asked his supporters to boycott the straw vote...
Britain prepared to cinch its social revolution a little tighter. New Year's Day would be Vesting Day, so-called because on that day title to coal mines and the cable & wireless industry would be taken from private ownership and vested in the Government...