Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite a generation of Communist propaganda, the Soviet people do not believe that Americans are villainous. After seeing spontaneous demonstrations for the Nixon party, an American who had known Russia in Stalin's day said: "I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming...
...then withholding approval, the Kansas City council voted unanimously to bar an emergency fund drive. It issued a bravado-packed statement that "the finest and best medical attention would be furnished by the municipality"-at taxpayers' expense. It ordered the city's health department to make sure that all needy patients get treated at the city's General Hospital. But this left a lot of loose ends. Many patients were being treated in private hospitals-and with the high costs of polio care, almost every family becomes needy...
...Sure enough, waiting at Leningrad airport was a friendly, waving crowd-including one Red Chinese who mystified all present by grabbing Nixon's hand and blurting out an apparently cheery but unintelligible greeting. Politician Nixon proceeded to give Politician Kozlov a boost with the home folks. "Mr. Kozlov," Nixon informed the crowd, "told me several times that one cannot come to the Soviet Union without visiting Leningrad." "Da!" interjected Kozlov loudly as his fellow citizens chuckled. "These are your constituents," grinned Nixon...
...tour indeed had its trials. Despite a handsome time advantage in filing-seven hours in Moscow, eleven in Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so thoroughly that the FBI often had trouble convincing them that they had been duped, was often altruistic (last winter he sent the National Cathedral in Washington a $200 chalice, paid for. to be sure, by a bad check); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...