Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon is the producer of the world's finest spray coatings...
...carrots are cooked," blared Radio Algiers, repeating with monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris. Escorting a visitor out of his office, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, onetime Socialist Resistance leader, soberly remarked: "We may never see each other again. I am going...
...look. There, smart as paint, stood a neighbor's new, factory-built scooter (equipped with a 2½-h.p. engine) that David wanted in trade for his old, homemade soapbox racer. Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over...
...well he might, Belloc saw ruin coming to a divided Europe in the '20s and '30s. He was appalled by the Protestant aristocrats who ruled England's foreign policy and, he felt, knew nothing of the Catholic Continent. Things would have been different, he was sure, had the Stuarts kept their jobs. He decried also the English "illusion that the possession of wealth is an excellence, like courage, or charity." The U.S., where Belloc was a successful lecturer, fared little better; he called it "an amiable and pleasant lunatic asylum...
...Roethke spent his childhood in the steaming, close atmosphere of growing things. Perhaps as a result, his imagery has an easy intimacy with slugs, birds, frogs, snakes, and in his deep disaffection for the world of men, he often seems happier to inhabit that simpler world. "I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another," he writes. "With bats, weasels, worms-I rejoice in the kinship...