Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, Cepeda's reception in St. Louis was cool. "The other players were not too sure about me," he says. "From everything they had heard, I was temperamental, bad for a team, a troublemaker, a clubhouse lawyer. I had to prove myself, to myself and to the other players. I had to prove that everything they wrote and said about me in San Francisco was wrong...
...uncertainties and inaction in Washington. "It's difficult to calculate the inflationary pressures on labor rates and costs of ingredients," complains President William Howlett of Consolidated Foods. "I lay 99% of the responsibility at the doorstep of the Administration," says President Robinson F. Barker of PPG Industries. "Sure, you can keep surtaxing and surtaxing until we're surtaxed to death," says President A. Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding an ax on the budget, noted Chairman Roger Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. last...
...apart from replacement of maturing issues). The Government had to pay 5¼% interest for some of that money last month, its highest rate since June, 1921. Last week a 3%, $1,000 Treasury bond that was first issued in 1955 traded at $750 (although the Treasury, to be sure, will pay off the full $1,000 when the bond matures...
...veracity. But it was not the killing that made Duncan change his mind about war, or scenes of murder and torture, or simply the mind-numbing training that preceded his Viet Nam hitch. The crisis came instead deep in Viet Cong territory when he was cut off and surrounded, sure he was about to die. With luck, he got out alive and the go-go editors of the anti-almost-everything magazine Ramparts hired him as military editor. The book says as much about the author's state of mind as about Viet...
...Somerset Maugham of adultery, Maurois framed his stories as conversations, recollections, letters. Their narrative line is sure, their characters well etched, their climaxes cutting. With a wave of his magician's hand he dismisses doubt. Maurois himself thought his stories "may be the best things I have written." Perhaps. More likely they are best as clues to his personality and his success...