Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otherwise, Satellite is rocketshipshape with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...
...Stevenson has taken a big lead with his moderate, brothers-in-arms appeal to party unity. It is his clear strategy to coddle the Democratic Baby. He wants no wounded feelings or angry yowling. He hopes to lie low in the last weeks before the convention while his managers clinch his nomination with a starkly simple piece of advice to uncommitted delegates: "Jump onto the bandwagon while there are still choice seats...
...have Twink in his play: "The only people who can play children are children." The kindly producer's kindly playwright writes in a fat part for Mama Girl, and at the smash New York opening, who should turn up but Papa Boy and Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Curtain. Clinch...
...Elis are at least ten goals better than the Crimson on comparative Ivy scores, having defeated all four league opponents this year. Should Yale win tomorrow's contest, it will clinch the championship. Dartmouth could tie for the title if it defeats Penn and the Elis lose...
...wind box" (iron lung) took care of Charlie's breathing and shook his faith in the infallibility of tribal magic. To clinch it, the doctors gave him his tucker (food) intravenously and by stomach tube. Charlie, half-starved, had wandered six days in the bush without food. As he regained some strength, Charlie seemed to regain some will to live...