Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local Quaker adherents, who now feel sure their team will go all the way this season, were jubilant. The goalposts fell within minutes after the game ended, and the campus rang with victory cries far into the night...
...authority to change the rules would be used. When Mediator Taylor asked Bethlehem Steel Negotiator John Morse to explain just how the work rules created problems in particular mills, Morse replied that he was "afraid the panel would get bogged down in details." Retorted Taylor: "Well, we're sure getting bogged down in generalities...
...diplomatic card, claimed his diplomatic immunity from arrest. He demanded the right to call his embassy. The five Russian agents laughed, told him that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then one Russian searched Langelle's topcoat, claimed to find a notebook, which Langelle had never seen before. Sure enough, when the Russian applied a handy chemical solution to its pages, he found invisible ink notes on Soviet secrets. The ploy: the notebook looked like prefabricated evidence for a sure-to-convict espionage trial against Langelle...
...because the team was down and we were offered a real challenge." End Marlin and Guard Mike both made the first string last year as sophomores. Lean-bellied and heavy-thighed, they stand 6 ft. 1 in., weigh 220 lbs., and only their mother can tell them apart for sure...
...best European drawing. Brought together to benefit Columbia University, and sponsored by President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth (who sent Signorelli's Hercules and Antaeus, and five other drawings from Windsor Castle), the show included 88 of the world's greatest. No one living could be sure which among them had the greatest claim to immortality. But the Altdorfer, Watteau and Goya drawings on the next four pages (all reproduced exactly full scale) would certainly be strong candidates...