Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that a law-such as the law in Connecticut banning the sale of contraceptive devices and publication of birth control literature-won't be passed throughout the U.S. if a Catholic becomes President? It frightens me to think that even one state can be dictated to by a Roman Catholic majority...
...Limb. In Cologne, Germany, arrested for sitting in a tree in the rain and peeking at a girl through her window, a man explained that he intended to propose to someone but wanted to be sure she was a good housekeeper...
...bullying his colleagues, directing the tactical battles from his command post on the House floor after wolfing a hot dog as he moves swiftly about Capitol Hill, Charlie Halleck at last has a job to satisfy his energies. When and if the Republicans regain control of Congress, he is sure to be Speaker. So far this year, his main efforts have been essentially defensive-holding the line in the battle for a balanced budget. But before this year's session ends, he must move to the offensive, trying to push through such controversial measures as foreign aid and labor...
Andrei Gromyko - The governments of the U.S.A., Great Britain and France have submitted for consideration by our conference a proposal in which many questions appear to be chained to each other . . . We are sure this plan was never designed to bring about agreement ... It stands to reason that this is a graphic manifestation of the technique of tying up problems of different nature in a single large tangle as a means of making their solution more difficult...
Mountain Ape-Men. More famed are the "abominable snowmen" or "yetis" of the Himalaya and central Asia. Heuvelmans is almost sure that they exist, and he marshals elaborate evidence to prove it. There may be two kinds-a monstrous, hairy creature 8 ft. tall, and a smaller one no bigger than a man. The monks of one Tibetan monastery display to travelers the scalp of an alleged snowman, and Heuvelmans argues that its hair pattern, much like a gorilla's, proves it is not a fake made out of some animal's skin. The remains of giant...