Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military. But it is almost certain that this move would have provoked full-scale intervention by China, perhaps with Russian support. Such intervention might not have happened, many military men argue, if the U.S. had confined itself to a far more weighty air offensive. But no one could be sure of this, and the Administration at the time judged the risk too great. Besides, Russians and Chinese could have found many means of aiding Hanoi short of rushing armies into the fight. Given South Viet Nam's porous border and long coastline, the mere resort to more systematic bombing...
...Eisenhower, whose birthday came up 30th, is almost certain to be drafted. Harvard Senior Joseph Blatt learned on the same day that he was one of 24 members of his class chosen for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and tenth in the lottery. He is almost sure to be called, as is Seth Grossman, chairman of the Duke University chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. "I support the war," he said, "but I like it better on TV." His date came up 14th...
...lightning coup nearly 32 months ago, the colonels, who have pledged to restore Greece's ancient moral values, have reacted with outraged indignation to isolated reports of mistreatment of any of the 6,000 or so political prisoners who have passed through their jails. To be sure, no international agency had been able to establish that a pattern of police terror existed in Greece. At the insistence of the Scandinavian countries, however, the Council's Human Rights Commission set up an eight-man subcommittee in early 1968 to investigate charges that Greece was violating the rights of prisoners...
...ideal for the part," said the producers of a pop musical about Christ called Superstar. "After all, from pictures of Christ he looked like a well-turned-out Lennon." John Lennon, that is. Sure, he'd consider playing Jesus, the Beatle was reported to have said, "but if I do it, I would want Yoko Ono to play Mary Magdalene." The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where they hope to stage Superstar, explained hastily that he had "nothing to do with the casting." By then, the producers were getting a little nervous...
...practitioner, cited by Potter in the same volume, dedicated his book "TO PHYLLIS, in the hope that one day God's glorious gift of sight may be restored to her"-thereby precasting as villains any critics unfeeling enough to pan the book. They could not know, to be sure, that Phyllis was the Lifeman's 96-year-old great-grandmother...