Search Details

Word: cinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Cinch. Now getting $100,000 a year for his newscasting, Vandercook is "amazed" by the freedom of U.S. radio. No one at NBC interferes with anything he says or proposes to say. He writes his own material, utters his own opinions. Vandercook rarely goes in for prediction. His military analyses have benefited from his acute sense of geography. Says he: "The tactics of the desert, the tactics of the mountain are geographical. . . . When we take a machine-gun nest in Italy, I don't say the German lines have been smashed. In that kind of terrain, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Globe-Trotter at Work | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...score was 14-to-12, with 28 seconds to play. Unbeaten in nine games, outplayed in its tenth but ahead anyhow, Notre Dame was about to cinch its national championship. Then Seaman Steve Lach, former Duke and Chicago Cardinal star, heaved a 54-yard pass to Quarterback Paul Anderson, and that was the ball game: Notre Dame 14, Great Lakes Naval Training Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: R. I. P. | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...mean I got messenger dooty?" asked the one and only A.J., apparently forgetting that he is a drate big Bee man now. When the war is ever Bill (Flag) Asker is a lead pipe cinch to have trouble computing his income tax, because it is doubtful that he will ever got out of that 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 rut he now is in. The government won't like it, Bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/23/1943 | See Source »

Without playing a game, the University of Washington i) has won the championship of the Pacific Coast Conference northern division, 2) is thereby halfway to the Rose Bowl. (The Huskies must beat the southern division champions, probably Southern California, to cinch it.) Reason: the other five teams, strapped for players, quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Easiest Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...listen to me ... no don't try to tell me you're busy. You sit right down and listen. Time was when the Lampoon could have a quiet movie made of it ... even a double feature. '...' without all this stupid fuss. It used to be a cinch. All we did was demand casting rights, royalties, and then sue for deformation of character...

Author: By M. M. Zwoncus, | Title: Lampoon Chosen as Villain In Movie, "Bamboo Blonde" | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | Next