Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bones, a rumor of a bosom, reliable cosmetics, and a stomach that could settle on Ry-Krisp and yoghurt, but fashions in fashion models change. These days the girl who can't perform a mean frug might just as well turn in her hatbox. It's a cinch that she will never make the scene...
...that. The Mets lost games in the longest (23 innings, 7 hrs.) and shortest (27 straight outs) ways possible. They were the only team since 1899 to lose 120 times in a single season. They finished dead last in 1962, 1963 and 1964, and they are a cinch for the cellar again this year. But there was Casey yakking away in Stengelese, calling his pitchers "plumbers" in front of everybody and standing on the dugout steps shouting "Whommy! Whommy!" to put the hex on opposing teams. So the fans flocked to the park-1,732,597 of them last year...
...Mets again, striking out 14 men in nine innings. That plus another 12 strikeouts in shutting out Pittsburgh 1-0 for his 21st victory at week's end brought his total K's this year to 279. With about twelve pitching turns to go, he seems a cinch to smash Bob Feller's alltime ma jor league record of 348 strikeouts...
...sophomore sprinter Wayne Andersen, had his problems on the muggy Rutgers track. He made it to the finals of the 100, but slipped coming out of the blocks and spent the first ten yards trying to regain his balance. By the time he did, he was a lead-pipe cinch for sixth place...
Break Out Champagne. Frank Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses is first-rate, but when it opened a year ago, it seemed a cinch for lilies within the week. It was by an unestablished author, had no big-name director or stars, was starting in late season, and had only a scrawny $165 advance. But just because the odds seemed so overwhelmingly against it, Roses became a cause. Publisher Bennett Cerf took a personal ad to praise it, Harry Belafonte distributed promotional roses, and the box office slowly built just enough to keep Roses in bloom. Then two weeks...