Word: surer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many people get these days. The weather is still cold and bitter, but superfluously gruesome without the compensations of snow. So, although the holiday has traditionally been a time to gather the family round, more and more U.S. citizens now pack up their presents and head for a surer kind of white Christmas-the white sands of the Caribbean...
...Princeton defense is spotty, Dockery pointed out. Cornell, which couldn't penetrate the Crimson's 20-yard line three weeks ago, cranked out 27 points against the Tigers. John McCluskey, whose ball-handling was surer at Penn, may be able to connect with the still untried men rotating...
Joseph McCarthy, by no means the only man to exploit the nation's latent fears, gave the era his name since he, more than any one else, had, to borrow Richard Rovere's phrase, "surer, swifter access to the dark places of the American mind...
Joseph McCarthy, by no means the only man to exploit the nation's latent fears, gave the era his name since he, more than any one else, had, to borrow Richard Rovere's phrase, "surer, swifter access to the dark places of the American mind...
Just in Case. None of these indicators are new. But economists believe that they have achieved a new sophistication in trend spotting. Using computers, the forecasters have reduced the time lag for most information-gathering from six months to two. And they are surer of what the information means, thanks to better reporting and more experience in analysis...