Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eric had the art. He learned his first stud poker lessons in penny ante games with newspaper boys and warehouse workers: when to raise, when to check a cinch, how to buy a pot. By the time he was seventeen he knew he was cut out to be a member of the quiet, all night world of rambling-gambling men. Soon, from Covington to Miami, from Vegas to Brooklyn, he became known as The Cincinnati Kid, "a comer, with a way about...
...Action. With President Johnson a seeming cinch to lead the Democratic Party's campaign in 1964, most newspapers went elephant hunting-and found plenty of game. Columnist Roscoe Drummond reignited the torch that he has been carrying all fall. "The unresolved question" about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, wrote Drummond, "is not whether Mr. Lodge is going to resign his ambassadorship and become an open, active and campaigning candidate for the nomination-but when." In some quarters, added Drummond hopefully, Lodge was considered "a more formidable contender" than Nixon, Goldwater or Scranton...
Still, the Crimson has to be favored. Niederhoffer is a cinch to win the number one match, and after him come Bill Morris and Lou Williams, both of whom beat their Army opponents last year. Ed Robinson, John Vintom, John Thorndike, and junior Alan Terrell, along with Adams and Francis, round out the team...
...Virginia whites in 1831. Between 1810 and 1860, some 100,000 slaves, valued at more than $30 million, slipped away to freedom in the North. Others protested in more subtle ways. They took to their beds with mysterious "miseries." They "accidentally" ruined plows and wagons. They "forgot" to cinch a saddle tightly-and many a master took a painful fall...
...done up in Venetian style, with colored lanterns, a pink marquee on the lawn overlooking Narragansett Bay, Meyer Davis' orchestra in gondolier garb, gondolier hats for the young men and golden masks for the young ladies. Janet, in a white strapless gown by Dior, looked like a cinch to get invitations to the season's best parties...