Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...released. "If only one-fourth of the radioactivity aboard got out," said one physicist darkly, "all human beings within a mile around would perish." Suddenly Premier Hansen did not stand alone: it turned out that the British had also had qualms about the recent visit of the Nautilus. Sure enough, when asked, Her Majesty's government admitted to having welcomed the Nautilus at Portland (pop. 15,000) precisely because the port was small enough to be "suitable." British atomic authorities, who had been queried by the Admiralty, advised against letting the Nautilus go up the Thames (Greater London...
...magistrate's order, he snapped: "Go away. I simply don't know what all this is about." To another who insisted that he had been convicted under the wrong section of a municipal ordinance, he roared: "What section should you have been convicted under? I am sure you should have been convicted of something. Application dismissed...
...Each morning, before the show goes on, each contestant sees a producer. He says something like 'Well, what will we talk about today? Who holds the record for home runs? You know-Babe Ruth.' Then he'll say: 'How would you recognize David Niven?' Sure enough, when the dots fill in, there's David Niven...
Composition, Clarity. Short and sun-bronzed, an unlit cigar clenched in the corner of his mouth, Rosy patrols a pitching deck with sure-footed agility that belies his 73 years. He cradles a battered Speed Graphic in his left arm, and from time to time he squints through the range finder, rises on his toes to kill the vibration of the 150-h.p. engine, waits for a wave to lift him and his target simultaneously, then snaps his shutter with a small cable release...
...Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy (TIME, July...