Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tennis stars had made the 7,800-mile trip to Melbourne, but only four could play. This week the four were picked who will represent the U.S. week after next in the Davis Cup finals against the Australians. Easygoing Jack Kramer seemed a cinch for the No. 1 singles berth...
...newsmen knew, the job was not the cinch that Editor Saylor made it out. At the Record, where 435 Guildsmen were out, a dozen men were putting out four regular editions. In Camden half as many put out both the morning Post and evening Courier, working staggered shifts from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Before the strike the job had kept 70 people busy. The papers used plenty of wire association copy, covered big local stories by telephone...
...main search was for a receiver who would accept the responsibility for a moribund concern. Barring calamities at home & abroad, the Republicans were a cinch to win in 1948. Using this year's congressional elections as a base, Pollster George Gallup computed a G.O.P. victory by 317 electoral votes...
...Derby winner, Assault. His time-2:42 2 4/5-clipped a fifth of a second off Jamaica's 1⅝-mile track record. Stymie paid off at a handsome 5-to-1. Reason: practically everybody bet on a record-wrecker named Lucky Draw (TIME, Sept. 23), who seemed a cinch to become the "Horse of the Year" after smashing six track records in his last eight races. Lucky Draw finished eighth; the top weight and the distance were too much...
...Price Boss Chester Bowles, who has little political experience but great ambition, seemed a cinch to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut. But last week he was outfoxed by the pros. In a wide-open state convention, after the pros had maneuvered a first-ballot deadlock, they threw all their strength to Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, 62-year-old poet and former Wesleyan University professor of English. Rushing to make the nomination unanimous, Chester said: "I've always said I'd never sulk in my tent...