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Greg Kirsch showed Cornell's Jon Croll no mercy as he stroked his way to a breadstick, bagel cinch. In the doubles the Crimson perpetuated its dominance, winning all three matches with ease...
...Ivies, in assists, with 174 in 26 games. The diminutive guard (5 ft., 10 in. in the program) dished out 15 buckets at Detroit, registered six steals at Holy Cross, scored ten points a game playing point guard, sank six of six free throws in the closing minutes to cinch the Penn upset, and led the team in intensity--every game...
...Midshipmen found themselves floundering from the outset, as the Crimson submarined them with five quick singles victories to cinch the outcome...
Beating the energy crisis is a cinch for hundreds of residents of Western Pennsylvania: they merely sink a well in their own backyard to tap the region's substantial deposits of natural gas. Though the area's gas fields are hardly in the same league as those in Texas and Louisiana, supplies are more than adequate to meet the heating and cooking needs of individual households and even provide an energy source for factories and electric utilities. The pace of new drilling has markedly quickened as the price of fuel has rocketed. Last year, for example, 674 wells...
Partridge's new collection, the product of eight years of compilation, is as pleasing for its erudition as its entries. Under "It's a cinch," Partridge quotes an essay in the July 1893 issue of Harper's magazine that traced the phrase to the backpacks of mules in the U.S. Southwest. "I'll have your guts for garters!" a military expression, can be found in Robert Greene's 16th century The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act III, Scene 2: "I'll make garters of thy guts, thou villain." "Sock...