Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond belief: a romantic comedy team composed of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the box-office champions of the 1958-59 season. The idea was obviously to present a sort of world series of sex, but what happened to the sex? When these two magnificent objects go into a clinch, aglow from the sun lamp and agleam with hair lacquer, they look less like creatures of flesh and blood than a couple of 1960 Cadillacs that just happen to be parked in a suggestive position...
...wealthy young merchant. This is one tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried; but love conquers, they go into a clinch, and all is forgiven. Being a decent chap, the hero keeps his new wife as well...
...disappointed Spring Weekend crowd of Tigers and dates saw the undefeated Crimson sweep the first six singles and two of the next four to clinch both the nine-match Eastern Intercollegiate League and the fifteen-match Big Three contests before the doubles play had even begun. The varsity won three of five doubles to make the final Big Three score...
...best world tournament performance to date, the U.S. nationals crushed East Germany last Friday, 9 to 2, to clinch a spot in the six-team, round-robin finals. Captain Bill Cleary, his brother, and Owen all scored for the Americans. The three ex-Crimson aces have been less effective since then, as the U.S. teams has absorbed two straight lickings by the Russians...
With title hopes squelched by Dartmouth's 6-2 victory over Brown Saturday, the varsity sextet can clinch second place in the Ivy League by defeating troublesome Princeton tonight at Watson Rink. Face-off time...