Word: cinched
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...lacocca thought he had it made. After slogging his way up from sales trainee to vice president at age 36, he masterminded Ford Motor Co.'s happy successes with the Mustang and the Maverick. So lacocca figured that he was a cinch to take over the president's chair when Arjay Miller stepped down three years ago. But then a gray-haired 55-year-old named Semon E. Knudsen got passed over for his dad's old job as president of General Motors. Henry Ford II snapped up Knudsen for the Ford job and let lacocca wait...
When 60 applicants took a written test for the Baltimore police force last year, the top scorer was John Jerome Bruns III, a 30-year-old clerk. With his high marks and unsullied reputation in the community, Bruns appeared to be a cinch to don the blue uniform. Then Bruns disclosed that in private life he had little use for clothes, let alone uniforms. He and his family were enthusiastic members of Pine Tree Associatesa local nudist club...
...that June in '61, when I sat with him [in the Oval Office], he was shaken by the experiences he had. And I remember him saying to me, 'Well Nate, when Franklin had this job, it was a cinch. He didn't have all of these world problems. He had only to cope with poverty in the United States, but look what I've got.' I remember being some what amazed that he could have reached the presidency and still have been as startled and shocked as he was by his meeting with Khrushchev. This seemed to me incredible...