Word: clinch
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...winning groove - a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong. The choreography was a mutual effort: Hermes Pan, Ginger, even Adele contributed. And of course Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance...
While his new audience may be a tad precious, Stanley is anything but. Growing up in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia in the 1930s, he learned the banjo from his mother while his brother Carter took guitar lessons from the mailman. The Stanley Brothers were naturals, and soon they were performing live out of a Bristol, Va., radio station and recording for Columbia. At one point, they were the biggest act in Appalachia not named Bill Monroe...
Cornell’s struggles allowed Harvard to become the quickest team in school history to clinch a share of the Ivy title. The Crimson claimed the outright crown with a victory over Yale and posted comfortable wins over Brown and Dartmouth to close out its Ivy season...
Standing on the sidelines in street clothes during Game Two, Crockett watched the Crimson simultaneously give up a 2-0 lead and the chance to clinch the Red Rolfe division title outright. Now Harvard will have to meet a menacing Brown squad in a one-game playoff on Wednesday. Harvard Coach Joe Walsh has already named his rubber-armed ace as his starter. He’ll pitch on three days’ rest...
Harvard rode the arm of starter Sheffield for five innings and got solid relief performances from Ronz and junior Barry Wahlberg to clinch a share of the Red Rolfe crown with Brown...