Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jayvee contest saw the Cantabs put on a seven-goal third period scoring parade that was sufficient to clinch a 13 to 3 triumph. Bill Hamlen, with four goals and two assists, and George McLaughlin, with two goals and three assists, sparked the winners who were never in danger...
Freshman Howie Houston, who took over the unlimited position for the Varsity from Pete Fuller for this meet, softened up beefy 230-pound Moe Mulvancy of Spring-field for two periods and then pinned him in 2:06 of the third period with a body press to clinch the meet. Houston's excellent performance assures the Varsity of standout heavies for years to come...
...yard freestyle with relative ease, and made up a substantial half-way deficiency to win the 220 yard freestyle. When Andover's Hart left the first two places in dive to Winslow Briggs and Wayne Barnet, the Crimson's following medley relay win was enough to mathematically clinch the outcome...
After Dolly's tribulations, the nation's problems rank first, and if James Madison discusses politics, it's only to create an impression that will lead to a clinch. Expressing doubts and fears for the nation's future. Meredith rushes into Miss Rogers' ample embrace, asserting reel after reel that you just can't mix business with pleasure...
...does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument, 3) began recording music. Soon nothing would do but perfection. Says she: "I'm just damn tired of hearing bad records...