Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently, Yank boasted three Harvard men, two of them also writers for The New Yorker. Staff Sergeant Harry Brown '38 is Richardson's assistant in London. An ex-Advocate editor and writer of by-lined verse for The New Yorker, Brown has just finished a book, "It's a Cinch, Private Finch," with cartoonist and unofficial Gremlin designer of Yank, Sergeant Ralph Stein. Their humorous study of the building of a soldier will be out this month...
...other (Red-menace) school is exemplified by a recent editorial in the New York Daily News: "It is a cinch bet that the much discussed postwar policing of Germany will be done by the Russians. . . . Stalin will accomplish what Hitler tried to do-dominate all Europe. The effect of all this on us will be to leave us in as much danger from Europe as we were before this...
Although it has lost one meet and won none, Columbia will be no cinch. Navy will be tougher although it has suffered two setbacks and failed to crack the win column. Besides its victory over Penn, the Crimson can boast of vanquishing Brown and M. I. T. Neither of these conquests carry any weight in the Eastern League however...
...Pacific I didn't say, "Where is the U.S. Navy? At the bottom of the ocean!" Later, when the U.S. Navy kicked the fangs out of the Japs in the Coral Sea, at Midway and at the Solomons, I didn't say, "It was a cinch that as soon as we got going we'd clean...
...practically a cinch to win in California over bumbling, fumbling Governor Culbert L. Olson is the G.O.P. candidate, State Attorney General Earl Warren. A colder cinch is Major General Edward Martin, in Pennsylvania, an old-line Republican, veteran of two wars, who thus far is outdistancing the generally unknown Democrat F. Clair Ross, the State Auditor General. The Michigan race is much closer, but a Republican has the edge-big, popular Harry Kelly, now Secretary of State, who polled in 1940 more votes than anyone has ever polled on any Michigan ballot...