Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although fencing turned out to be less wide-open and slashing than he expected, Winfield still found the sport exciting. "I'm sure its the fastest collegiate sport," he said...
SENTIMENT for the late President Kennedy has subdided among the Boston Irish. There is still talk and talk, to be sure, and machine-auto-graphed pictures hanging over the South Boston bars. But to Massachusetts legislators, Kennedy is gone. "The President is dead now. He can't do anything for them," one observer said...
...arcane problem of science, a still more difficult problem of the scientific personality, a highly subjective question of libel, and an even more inassessable threat of legal action. On sidestepping a professional squabble or avoiding a lawsuit, one may assume, the Corporation saw no question of principle. To be sure they also failed to see that these were questions on which an occasional gathering of excellent but inexperienced laymen would inevitably be uninformed. They did seek advice from their lawyers. But they did not recognize that this was to reinforce innocence with innocence. From some experience I can attest there...
...Meredith who in 1952 started "auctions"-the practice of submitting promising manuscripts, along with a bidding deadline, to more than one publisher at a time. Typically, he will send out letters to about 20 publishers informing them in glowing but vague terms about a sure-fire bestseller. After a sufficient number of nibbles, Meredith sets his H-hour, and on the big day-watches synchronized, manuscripts neatly packed in grey boxes-a platoon of messengers fans out across Manhattan to deliver their valuable cargo to the publishers. Fevered reading is then followed by even more feverish bidding...
...rest of the cast--the characters with which the Author is working--share one general flaw that director Christopher Arnold could have eliminated with a firmer hand. Their readings are all uncertain, with no one quite sure just which words they should be emphasizing, which laughs they should be expecting and which pauses they should be holding. John Brady, as the police superintendent, is particularly afflicted...