Word: cinches
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...supporters kicked and fought last week over plans to take a poll of presidential choices at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention in Madison. They were sure, or thought they were sure, that Harold Stassen's workers had thought up the poll, and that it would be a cinch for a Stassen victory. Dewey's cohorts even asked his supporters to boycott the straw vote...
Britain prepared to cinch its social revolution a little tighter. New Year's Day would be Vesting Day, so-called because on that day title to coal mines and the cable & wireless industry would be taken from private ownership and vested in the Government...
...tennis stars had made the 7,800-mile trip to Melbourne, but only four could play. This week the four were picked who will represent the U.S. week after next in the Davis Cup finals against the Australians. Easygoing Jack Kramer seemed a cinch for the No. 1 singles berth...
...newsmen knew, the job was not the cinch that Editor Saylor made it out. At the Record, where 435 Guildsmen were out, a dozen men were putting out four regular editions. In Camden half as many put out both the morning Post and evening Courier, working staggered shifts from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Before the strike the job had kept 70 people busy. The papers used plenty of wire association copy, covered big local stories by telephone...
...main search was for a receiver who would accept the responsibility for a moribund concern. Barring calamities at home & abroad, the Republicans were a cinch to win in 1948. Using this year's congressional elections as a base, Pollster George Gallup computed a G.O.P. victory by 317 electoral votes...