Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sell, Jim. Sure you can sell. Anybody can sell...
Newly promoted to sergeant, Cadet Simeon Rylski of Valley Forge (Pa.) Military Academy, who until 1946 had a country (Bulgaria) to call him King Simeon II, settled down with Roommate Richard J. Sands for a session of rifle cleaning. Cadet Rylski remains youthfully sure that happier days will be here again: "Communists cannot rule forever. Despotisms have always fallen. Why should this one be an exception? I can wait, for I am young...
...delegate to Cushing: "Don't think you are going to parlay one ski lift into an Olympic Game." Even a U.S. delegate sneered: "Who's going to vote for you? I'm not." Austria's Innsbruck was Squaw's chief competitor, and seemed a sure winner when one of the delegates charged that Squaw was totally unprepared to stage an Olympics, furthermore should be disqualified because it was not a town (it still is not). Summoned to the meeting room for an explanation, Cushing turned on the charm. There should be no fears about readying...
...Days lost from work totaled 356,500,000; from school 273,200,000. The survey, first of its kind in 20 years, recorded a higher-than-average illness rate because the invading Asian virus boosted the incidence of influenza above normal-how much, the pollsters were not sure...
...fell asleep. During his 13-hour slumber they also ran electrocardiograms. Leary of the dangers of these stunts, Dr. West had not been able to promise Tripp that there would be no harmful effects. This week, though Tripp seemed outwardly well, he was still getting tests to make sure...