Word: cinches
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...mile relay team, needing a second place finish to cinch the meet, came in nearly 100 yards ahead of Princton to pick up the three points. Bob Weil led off with Dave Spinney second, A1 Gordon third, and Phil Williams anchorman...
...polo field at Windsor Great Park, the Duke of Edinburgh, a victim of a slipped cinch, took a tumble from his mount as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne watched. Back in the saddle again, Philip resumed the game, but his accident was interpreted by some as divine retribution: many English churchgoers have recently openly looked askance at the Duke's sporting on the Sabbath...
Frank Lausche is a cinch to be the next President of the United States if he campaigns as a bourgeois peasant, a Protestant Catholic and a Republican Democrat...
...York Rangers' training camp in Saskatoon, Sask. was a dismal place last fall. Every hockey player there had read in the papers that his team was a cinch for the National Hockey League cellar. They were all resigned to their fate-until their new coach, former Ranger Center Phil Watson, started giving them the needle. "Last place?" snarled the fiery Canadian. "Why, I never finished last in anything in my life-not even in a poker game. Last season the rest of the league scored 210 goals against the Rangers while the Rangers made a lousy 150. This year...
...fact is that if he goes on writing, he is almost a cinch to win both...