Word: cinching
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...doubt in the freshman election was third place with Sandler winning by only five votes. Peterson was a cinch from the halfway point in the counting...
...play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write for the theater...
...innings, Sain toyed with Cincinnati. By then his mates had built up a six-run lead. He eased up, won 8-3. Said Southworth, beaming: "He's a cinch to win 20 games...
...outdo Phileas Fogg by taking a trip around the world in 6½ days for only $1,700. Returning from such a jaunt, wiry Eddie Eagan, New York State boxing commissioner and a Yale classmate ('21) of Trippe's, assured the Circumnavigators Club that it was a cinch: all you needed was a toothbrush, a good book and a few sleeping pills...
...keeping the conductors honest. Guaguas, always jammed to the fenders, grew even more crowded. Marveled one conductor: "Before, we had to chase down some passengers for their fares; now they chase us down for their tickets." A jubilant inspector reported that his job had suddenly become a lead-pipe cinch; "Some people try to pay twice just to get an extra ticket." The company estimated that fare collections would climb some $70,000 a month; the prizes would cost only...