Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally out of the shadow of defeat, Chief Boston's Freshman football team is going to find that staying in the sun is no cinch. For in the last two games of 1944's short, five game schedule, the Freshmen will meet two other yearling elevens. Yale and Dartmouth, both bent on concluding their seasons in the successful glow of victory...
...last week, Democrats had not even bothered to take their coats off. The Third Term was a cinch. The whole thing was just a killer. National Committee Chairman Ed Flynn had decided that he did not even have to leave The Bronx. If anybody wanted him, they knew where to find him. Mr. Roosevelt made a few remarks which he laughingly admitted were "political." The only Democrat who seemed to take it seriously was Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace, who plodded up & down the land making earnest speeches to farmers...
...season, the mighty New York Yankees were humiliated by Chubby Dean of the Athletics, a pitcher as obscure as Dizzy and Daffy (no kin) are famed. ''Oh, those things happen," droned U. S. baseball fans, almost to a man agreeing that the World Champion Yankees were a cinch to win the American League pennant for the fifth consecutive year...
...with Army bombers and the U. S. Navy vigorously interdicting his supply lines from Europe, setting up such a base would be no cinch. To do so would take a huge fleet which probably would have to get a foothold in South America (preferably on Brazil's jutting coast 1,000 miles from the Cape Verde Islands) before extending himself to the north...
...gets the breaks in the softball league and 35 points by finishing in a two-way tie for fourth, in addition to a Kirkland hardball defeat, it can squeak through to a 1548 to 1571 1/2 point win over the Deacons by beating Adams in hardball. Kirkland is a cinch third in the softball, good for 50 points, and seems to be a heavy favorite to win the Straus Trophy for the second successive year