Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer the free world than strength of arms. In its respect for local law the U.S. underscores its faith in law itself, and thus by example challenges local law to be its responsible best. At its responsible best, a free world rule of law can do more to cinch for all time the high ambitions of U.S. foreign policy than even arms and soldiers...
Roger, under the some-time guidance of employer Miles Maleson, first loses a cinch divorce suit, then wins dismissal of a confidence man on a technicality, and finally returns as a substitute counsel to his own village in a slander trial. He wins, and from the public gallery his father leads the home-town parish in applause...
...hasty marriage that still managed to survive for a year and a half. He was only a bit more successful at his studies. But he was a three-letter man (football, basketball and track), the finest all-round athlete in Walla Walla's history, and a cinch for any number of athletic scholarships...
Actually, la poitrine was never so emphasized as in the new décolletage, and le derrière is still with us. For the girls who are enceinte, that "sack" will be O.K., and the rest of us will just cinch in the side seams and add a swishy cummerbund. Voila...
...Chaney? This movie, though taking some drastic liberties with his life, more nearly catches his spirit than any previous try at his biography. The subject was certainly no cinch. The actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In a large sense, that was so. There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded a Los Angeles...