Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Harvard trusts girls in its buildings, Radcliffe is not quite sure whether it will trust men in hers. For Radcliffe will allow none but her own to enter her buildings after 8:30 p.m.; in addition the college forbids alcohol to be served at any times, and spirits are a frequent refreshment at meetings. Merged activities, therefore, rely on Harvard buildings for evening meetings, giving the Harvard Dean's offices the responsibility of approving locations, finding chaperones, and recording all this data in triplicate...
When the Health Center is built on Dunster Street and Cronin opens a new pub, it is sure to have one thing in common with the old one: the proprietor will be a candidate-in-good-standing for membership in the Men's Auxiliary of the W.C.T.U. Jim Cronin has never touched a drop, and probably never will. "When I was a boy they told me something in Latin about moderation. And I haven't been weaned from milk...
...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
...Freed has been treated as though he were a criminal or something by the alleged law of the land, and notice we say alleged. It's time for American teen opinion to make itself heard in the resounding crescendo tones that are our birth-right. You can be sure that all over the nation and up in Canada, and in fact Europe, teens will be in spirit walking into that court room with Alan Freed, ready to face the music as it were and holding our heads high too. Of course loyal local teens will show...
...During my whole lifetime I won't earn half of what that plane costs." On the bitter morning in February 1957 when The Netherlands' bureaucracy finally produced his 1955 tax bill, Witte exploded in anger. As an assistant bookkeeper for a Rotterdam housing association, Witte, 57, was sure of his own figures. The tax collector, he fumed, had made a mistake...