Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sociologists Caplow and McGee dust up a storm of statistics, even compile a table of percentages on professors who are given farewell parties before leaving for other jobs. They also manage to throw in enough anonymous professorial gossip to make sure that their blast is an academic bestseller. Grouses one professor-hiring department chairman, of the candidates sent him from the great universities: "We took him on the basis of the enthusiastic support of an outstanding professor at Harvard. That's very important. If Princeton pushes a man, I know it means I'll have to look somewhere...
Week after week, the ratings of Robert Young's Emmy-winning show, Father Knows Best, demonstrated that father really does. So it was sure as apple pie that other members of the family would gather at the festive board. Already lined up this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time...
...Yankees had not conspired so efficiently to beat themselves. Hank Bauer led off the first inning with a single, got ignominiously picked off base moments later. In the eighth inning, the same Bauer backed up for a routine line drive, overjumped it to make a double of a sure putout. With this help, Spahn took heart, got stronger and stronger (he retired 14 batters in a row), and the Braves won 4-3 in ten innings...
Cutter, which markets fibrinogen under the trade name Parenogen, packs an explanatory card with every gram. On a tear-off part aimed at physicians, it urges: "Make sure that this gets to the one who pays the patient's bill, preferably at the time of injection or when the bill is presented. The costliness of Parenogen will come as a shock and will surely be resented unless it is fully understood. Help avoid this unnecessary resentment by seeing that this gets to the bill payer...
...course of a lifetime. As elsewhere too, O'Neill tells of one whose life would crumble but for his dreams and whose dreams themselves fall apart at last. And as so often in O'Neill, Poet has centripetal force and centrifugal wastefulness, giant strength and giant sprawl, sure theatrical instincts and wavering dramatic imagination...