Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cornell's defense--which allowed only 26 points in three games--is sure to be keying on these two, and Gatto, just recovered from a foot infection, may not be in top form anyway...
With Harvard's offense almost sure to be less effective than usual today, Coach John Yoviesin has to worry all the more about Cornell's and in particular, about Robertson...
Winner Take All. But by the middle of the fifth game, the Tigers looked like sure losers. Portly Mickey Lolich, their only Series winner, was laboring on the short end of a 3-2 score; he seemed ready to take the long walk to the showers when he got an unexpected reprieve from the Cards' Lou Brock, justly famed as the National League's most expert baserunner. Heading for home with a sure run, Brock unaccountably failed to slide under the high, late throw. He came in standing up, crashed into Catcher Bill Freehan and was tagged easily...
Superlative was the word for the facilities. Judged by their past performances and present eagerness, the athletes seem sure to match them...
Cats and Dogs. Norton Simon made doubly sure that the prize would not escape him; five minutes before the sale began he had two long-distance telephone lines open from his Fullerton, Calif., office to Parke-Bernet. Then, as the bidding of Renoir's early master piece reached the million mark, he shifted from his representative, Manhattan Dealer Stephen Hahn, directly to Parke-Bernet's chairman, Peter Wilson, who relayed Simon's bids inconspicuously from behind a screen on the auction-room podium. "I had a hunch that it could have gone for as much...