Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forbes skated in alone on goalie Cliff Michel at 17:35 to clinch the tie--a come-from-behind effort against the inspired Princeton squad...
With a few exceptions like La Bibbia, Italy's fumetti are sentimental soap-opera plots, as pure as they are lathery. Successively framed by the camera, the young lovers march inexorably toward an impassive clinch. Sex, violence and nudity are fumetti taboos, partly in concession to a Roman Catholic women's association, which charged in 1951 that the magazines were corrupting Italian youth. Bosoms are thoroughly draped, although now and then a generously endowed film star, like Marisa Allasio, may present problems...
...businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole thing as grist for Communist propaganda, sent out a girl reporter to interrogate Murrow. The reporter tracked him to the very door of a CBS washroom, but got no information, was reduced to reporting...
...yearly (in 19 Indian languages), there are only twelve top stars. They work in as many as 15 movies simultaneously, dashing from studio to studio in limousines, and often a hero and heroine do their parts in so many scattered bits that they actually meet only for a climactic clinch...
CINCINNATI, Jan. 4--Boston's highflown Celtics had to beat off successive threats Sunday to clinch an 111-108 victory over Cincinnati's Royals in the dying seconds of an afternoon National Basketball Association game...