Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Buchan is not one to break up an erotic clinch, but amusing traces of British practicality crop up in the lovers' dialogue (" 'Oh Armin, you've covered me up! You are kind!' 'I was afraid you might catch a chill,' he said.") The husband soon puts a deep chill on the whole affair by taking Laura back to England...
...peppy Winthrop eleven came from behind yesterday to beat Dunster 13 to 6, and clinch the House football championship. The winning tally came in the fourth period, as halfback Al Lubetkin caught a Funster punt and ran 60 yards to cross the goal line...
...what are certainly the two best teams in New England, and probably the two best in the Ivy League. The winner is almost sure to take the New England League championship, and must carry off at least a tie for Ivy honors as well. If Yale wins, the Elis clinch the Ivy title, since they now lead the League with four wins and one tie. The Crimson, tied for second with Pennsylvania at four wins and a loss, must win to stay alive. A Crimson victory would assure a tie for first place, and would lead to an undisputed crown...
...broadswords boing. In the end French heads are rolling about the landscape like mothballs at a spring cleaning, while Errol proves, as always, a beryl in peril. He loses nothing but his mustache-but then, what is Errol Flynn without his mustache? As he comes up for the final clinch with the heroine (Joanne Dru), he looks as sapless as Samson on the morning after his lawn was mowed. Or maybe it is only that Errol, at 46, is getting a little old for this sort of thing. So is his public...
...freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway up a mountainside is mercifully dwarfed by a staggeringly beautiful panorama of Hong Kong...