Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hulk to the rostrum and begins: "I hope you came out not just to see if I'm as homely as I appear on television, but out of a desire to know more about government." Where Seaton, with his national reputation, once seemed a cinch, the race now seems close. Both candidates agree that it will be settled by the vote in the populous Omaha and Lincoln areas, where Morrison won his entire victory margin in 1960. That was before Jack Kennedy became a problem...
...month or so ago. almost everyone in Ohio agreed that Rhodes was a cinch to win. As of last week, the consensus was that Rhodes was still ahead-but by no means a cinch...
Just a few weeks ago, almost everyone conceded that Capehart, a farm-born Hoosier who became a millionaire phonograph manufacturer before his election to the Senate in 1944, was a cinch to be reelected. Everyone, that is, but Bayh, who has been campaigning furiously in a white station wagon equipped with fancy gear for making newspaper photo mats and television tapes. Also born on a farm, Bayh was president of his 1951 class at Purdue University, earned a law degree from Indiana U., was elected to the state legislature in 1954, owns a 340-acre farm near Terre Haute. Admits...
...American people must not despair because of Russian achievements. Second place is pretty good, and I'm sure we are a cinch for at least that...
Fighting the Army. The 171 pros who qualified for the 44th P.G.A. took one look at Aronimink's broad fairways and manicured greens, helpfully dampened by heavy showers, and pronounced the course "honest"-which is pro talk for "a cinch." But they reckoned without two handicaps: the hot, humid weather, and "Arnie's army"-the huge, unruly gallery that stampeded noisily around the course chasing everybody's favorite golfer, Arnold Palmer. "You can't think, can't concentrate," complained one pro. "It's damned upsetting to stand over a putt and hear feet pounding...