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...soccer varsity hobbled with injuries travels to Providence today to clash with their toughest Ivy rivals of the season. A win today will cinch the league title for the Crimson, which goes into the match with a 4-0-1 League record. Brown is clinging to second place with 4-2. If they topple the Crimson they will force the contest for the Ivy crown into the last game of the season...
...disarmingly simple explanation for his success. "Really, this business of managing is a simple thing," said Houk. "All you need is a flock of .300 hitters, several 20-game winners on your pitching staff, some speed, and some power. Once you have that, you're a cinch...
...Marc Bohan, who tends to flout the trends, does away with the bulky silhouette; although he concentrates less on S-lines than his colleagues, Bohan's fashions are the tightest, slenderest, most feminine of all. His decidedly youthful designs feature slim, high-bosomed bodices, gently flared skirts, wide cinch-belts and narrow shoulders...
...there is any such thing as a cinch bet, it is that James Riddle Hoffa will be overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the union's Miami convention next month. But Jimmy is not the sort to take any chances: his headquarters admitted last week that an "independent" committee (headed by Hoffa lieutenants) had sent letters putting the bite on the union's 3,000 fulltime staff members for $25 each "to defray the election campaign expenses" of Jimmy and Secretary-Treasurer John English...
...route, using the ersatz crime lingo favored throughout the movie, Joyce says: "It was a cinch the pump jockey'd give you fuzz an eyeball description of the wagon," meaning that the filling-station attendant was certain to give the cops a full description of the stolen car. Pretty soon, as the script commands, she "tantalizingly presses her body against the deputy's and eases his own gun from its holster. The movement of her shirt rubbing against him opens the front revealingly." "See?" she asks tauntingly. "You should've searched me. You kinda missed something, didn...