Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge, wears a derby pulled over his ears and high-laced shoes. He put on an old-style campaign and dramatized his complaints about the city bus system by buying his own bus and picking up passengers, once dug up weeds on a local bridge. His defeat was a sure thing...
...prepared statement along with personal notes looking for sympathy. Wrote he to Critic Crosby: "I wanted you to have a copy of this complete from my own hand. It's not a pleasant story, but I tried to make it a true one at least. I'm sure I won't read anything you write so don't worry about that...
...What may hold repairs to a minimum is the fact that U.S. Steel, Inland and others kept nonunion supervisory staffs in the mills to keep heat in the furnaces and do some of the basic repair work as the damage occurred. The industry will not know for sure until the furnaces start operating this week. Says one steelman: "We've never gone through a strike this long. When a furnace has been down for four months, nobody can say how it's going to work even though it looks in good shape...
Four straight Harvard losses followed, and the varsity finds itself today clearly favored for the first time since the period of darkness fell. It has been a dismal six years, to be sure, but things were not always thus...
Along with his major piece, Pound also sent Gadfly the following two-line dissertation on modern politics: "The White House is a white house, It sure ain't a lighthouse...