Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Harry Vaughan, military aide to President Truman, is a large, uninhibited man, a veteran at draw poker. Genial and democratic to boot, Reserve Officer Vaughan is neither a finicky nor a formal dresser: in the White House he often does not bother to put on a blouse or cinch up his necktie...
...down; but nobody was covering and the ball sailed into center, allowing Foley to score and Roche to reach third. Swegan banged out a single to center scoring Roche, and came home after Allen walked and Wallace belted one to left. Bucek rapped a ball which was cinch for the third baseman to handle but he let it roll through his legs, Allen and Wallace scoring the fourth and fifth runs of the inning...
Last week at Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...
...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...
Machines to play music have long been accepted, but now there is a machine to compose music-of a sort. Called the Compos-A-Tune, it is a cinch to operate for anyone with elementary knowledge of musical notation...