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Word: cinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Showtime for Henri | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Hypothetical Cinch. On the other hand, Casey Stengel, 57, for years baseball's No. 1 buffoon, had stopped clowning. He had not been thrown out of a game all season. When his star, Joe DiMaggio, was counted out with a sore heel before the season opened, Casey camouflaged his fears. A knowing wink was all anybody got out of him though Casey knew least of anybody what he was winking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Halfway & Hot | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Making baseball history is a cinch with the help of a moist pad concealed in the hollow of his pitcher's mitt. Every time his wood-repellent ball comes steaming across the plate, it takes a neat little hop over the advancing bat. In no time, Miland is the star pitcher in a heated World Series. Everything, in fact, is going fine until his roommate and catcher (Paul Douglas) starts using the precious solution as a hair tonic. This leads to some minor plot complications and further belaboring of the film's one gag, which has already been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...doubt in the freshman election was third place with Sandler winning by only five votes. Peterson was a cinch from the halfway point in the counting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2229 Vote in Elections for Council Posts | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write for the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Dallas | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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