Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that most Catholics in the U.S. are loyal Americans, but we Protestants who live in Italy under "democracy" as dictated by the Vatican are inclined to side with Kirby...
...days later, after the Soviet press described the noisy demonstration staged by Hungarian refugees outside the Park Avenue offices of the Soviet U.N. Delegation in Manhattan, U.S. embassy officials sighed and phoned the Soviet Foreign Ministry to demand additional police protection. Sure enough, two hours later, another 2,000 Muscovites turned up before the ten-story U.S. embassy building. This time, however, the "rioters" contented themselves with waving placards and gentle shouts of "fascists" and "dogs." When one youth climbed aboard a passing truck and began to distribute its cargo of bricks among the demonstrators, a policeman intervened, insisted that...
...good many toolmakers want to see more proof. Said an officer of the Atlantic Machine Tool Works serving the Hartford area: "Sure, the tool business in Connecticut is looking up. When you are flat on your back, where else can you look but up?" Pratt & Whitney Co.'s machine-tool plant at West Hartford says that employment is still off 25% from September. Not until general business improves will the tool business really...
...turning a fast buck, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, the 7-ft.-2-in. lapsed amateur from the University of Kansas (TIME, June 2) looked over the basketball season ahead and announced a change of plans. Rather than gamble on taking his own team on tour, Wilt decided on a sure thing. He signed a one-year contract with those skillful showboaters, the Harlem Globetrotters...
...biggest break came in the new 2⅝% interest bonds which came out fortnight ago (TIME, June 23). Many Wall Streeters touted the bonds as sure to rise, as other recent Government issues have risen. Demand was so great that New York City banks' loans to brokers against Government obligations (which helped the brokers to carry the thinly margined speculators) hit a twelve-year high of $1,357,000,000. Just after the bonds came out, they hit 100½. But by last week the bonds had skidded a full point to 99½, due largely to rumors that...