Word: cinches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...landslide for Kennedy-largely on the basis of a pre-election estimate of at least a 100,000 Kennedy plurality in Jersey City. But the Hudson County machine fell down on the job-and Kennedy had the scare of his life. Again, Ohio was figured as a Kennedy cinch-but Cleveland fell short of its expected Democratic plurality, and the state went to Nixon...
...Rome, a sad-faced Kansan named Jeff Farrell, 23, was the man. The greatest U.S. sprinter by consent and by competition, Farrell last month won the National A.A.U. championship by thrashing through the 100-meter freestyle in 54.8 sec., fastest time ever for an American. He looked a cinch to take the 100 meters, and to win a place on the 800-meter relay squad as well, at last week's Olympic trials in Detroit. But six days before the trials, Farrell underwent an emergency appendectomy and sent U.S. swimming plans into an emergency...
Placating & Pointing. Ever since Rockefeller withdrew from the presidential race last December, Nixon had assumed that getting the nomination was a cinch. His problem with Rockefeller at Chicago was not to beat him out for the presidential nomination but to win his support for the campaign beyond. The starting point was clearly to get a platform that Rockefeller would endorse...
...Cinch for the Sit-in. Although New York educators had long suspected the existence of the ghost-scholar racket, they were still understandably upset by Benson's evidence. Said Dr. Hollis L. Caswell, president of Teachers College: "The general moral tone in our country is tending to encourage this sort of thing. It is a little like our attitude toward the income tax-if you can get by with it, it is all right." Columbia might have been equally concerned at the facility with which Newsman Benson, himself an admittedly indifferent undergraduate student (Class of '49, with...
Third Man on the Mountain. Walt Disney's cliff hanger for the kids, who will probably believe that rock climbing is the spectacular cinch it seems to be in this film, and will certainly enjoy the entirely fictional story about a boy who showed the grownups how to climb the Matterhorn...