Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor have to go light. Without price control a rise in retail price would have taken the edge off the demand at the same time that it stimulated the supply. With price control the demand kept soaring, but further production increases were inhibited. Some form of rationing became a cinch to prophesy...
...Republican side of the fence the pasture can be cultivated just as neatly. Bennett's nomination makes the election of Tom Dewey as Governor of New York the closest approach to a political cinch since the 1932 Presidential campaign. The American Labor Party, whose 400,000 votes have been the decisive Democratic margin in New York since 1936, has announced that it will put its own candidate in the field rather than support the lukewarm Mr. Bennett. This move will split the Democratic vote like a meat cleaver through a chicken...
...Varsity ball team invaded the enemy's camp Wednesday afternoon and reemphasized its earlier defeat of the Lovell Hospital of Fort Devens with a 12 to 6 victory. Although the home squad outhit the victors, the Crimson came up from behind in the final two frames to cinch the game...
When Owner Allgood dies, Butterfingers cinches the pennant by wooing funds for new players from the svelte new socialite owner (Carole Landis). Soon it is clear that he is also about to cinch Owner Landis. Romance for Butterfingers lies just beyond the bleachers...
...Governor of Kansas (1929-31), having got there with the help of Campaign Manager Alf Landon. He had a tempestuous administration, quarreled with everyone. His friend Roy Roberts, rotund managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told him: "If you manage to meet enough people, you're a cinch to be beaten next time." He did and he was. Reed stayed in political retirement until 1938, when he emerged to oppose rabble-rousing Rev. Gerald Winrod in the Republican Senatorial primary, went on to win the Senate seat...