Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been negotiating for the purchase of Paricutin, the volcano which poked through the cornfield of Mexican Farmer Dionisio Pulido, on Feb. 20, 1943, and quickly grew into a 1,500-ft. mountain, belching flame, smoke and lava. This week the cartoonist, after delicate and mysterious negotiations, expected to clinch the deal...
...woman protract the ultimate inevitable plunge into each other's arms has, even at its silliest, some basis in truth. It is by no means new 1) to identify this skirmishing of the sexes with class warfare, 2) to resolve all class distinctions in the clinch. The one thing that gives this thousandth version any novelty is Alan Ladd's triple-chilled proficiency at handling all the tricks of making love in reverse gear. This is as interesting to look at, in a simpleminded way, as someone drinking a glass of beer standing on his head...
...come up smiling. With Major Maurice Evans bossing the job and playing the introspective Prince for the first time since 1940, the effect on the dogfaces has been, for Evans, "simply staggering." They even rise above normal behavior by refraining from hollering or whistling when performers go into a clinch. Commented one G.I.: "They certainly must have done a lot of rewriting to bring that play so up to date...
Carrying the offensive from the start, the Crimson hooters got rolling in the second half to notch four goals and clinch the contest. Although the prep schoolers tried hard, they couldn't penetrate the Crimson defense enough to do any serious damage. The summary: G. Livermore; lh, Sternberg; rf, Corrigan; lh, Coon; ch, Kern; rf, Siller; or, Jessner; ir, Potter; c. Simitch; il, Gelert; ol, Chen...
Star of the game was center forward Roy Heisler. Playing his last college game for the duration, the army-bound booter notched four goals in the last two periods to clinch the game for the Crimson. This brings his total for the two contests played so far in the fall season to nine goals. Sharing honors with Heisler for the Crimson was goalie Dick Harshman, who turned aside kick after kick off the toes of the Worcester booters...