Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extrovert. Only a small group of undergraduates can claim more than a mild acquaintance with him. In fact, his tendency to stay apart has given one colleague the false impression that his favorite amusement in the exercise line is swimming. A friend on the team says it's a cinch that he's one of the best swimmers on the faculty...
Last fall, it was a cinch to cinch yourself. This spring your dirndl cries for a waist-whittling belt, of even wider and more alluring contours. After extensive tests, our model hit upon shiny cowhide contrasted strikingly with even-textured cottons. Departures from standard materials--straw, dog-leases, and metal--will spice up informal, summery outfits...
...Radcliffe girl, typically enough, is resisting the trend and distorting the graph. Their waist-lines are getting higher, their waists are getting smaller with an assist from the cinch belt. Curves along the hips and bust are re-accentuated, re-exaggerated, and re-inflated...
...Crimson, playing without the ill Dick Clasby, pushed in three goals in the first period, to virtually cinch the game then and there. Almost all came on good pass plays: Almy to Manchester at 3:53; Cooledge to Bliss at 6:06; and Hubbard to Greeley...
...next day the angle was PROTESTS MOUNT OVER CONANT. "Informed sources" were most verbose, stating that the Democratic Minority leader in the Senate had received 1,000 telegrams protesting the appointment. "If Lyndon B. Johnson got 1,000 it is a cinch that Eastern and Mid-Western Senators got plenty more...