Word: cinching
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...known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like this." When the earth moved, Craig instinctively reached for his Tiger ring. "They're not so easy to come by," he said. As his friend Anderson told him some weeks ago, "You guys are a cinch, but pray for us." Sparky must have known something...
...will loom large over the summit is whether the Senate can be persuaded to ratify an INF treaty. Both sides have tended to assume that a pact acceptable to a President as conservative as Reagan would whistle through easily, but there are already warnings that ratification will be no cinch. If a treaty is signed in November, ratification debates may begin next February, precisely when the primary campaigns in both parties will be approaching fever pitch. The treaty could well come under fire from an odd coalition of Republican conservatives distrustful of any deal with Moscow and Democratic liberals eager...
Time was, the U.S. would have been a cinch on any course in the world. At Royal Birkdale in 1969, England's Tony Jacklin, this year's defending captain, had a short but missable putt on the 18th hole for a final tie so implausible that in a hallmark of sportsmanship, Nicklaus gave it to him. "After years of Britain's never winning," Nicklaus recalls, "the spirit of the match, international goodwill, was all that really mattered...
...Williamsburg, Va., summit, returning to find that her gesture of statesmanship had led to a boost in the polls, assuring her within days of her second victory. Venice may prove to be the ultimate photo opportunity. When the battlefield is imagery, that could be enough to cinch...
...touchdown-saving tackle. Gielen was dragged to the floor, but not until he threw in the lay-up. A two-shot intentional foul was correctly called, and Gielen canned the freebies to cap an eight-point Harvard run which turned a 77-73 ballgame into an 85-73 Crimson cinch...