Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After finally halting Princeton on its 14, the varsity staged a lightning eight-play offensive drive to clinch the game at 8:31 of the third quarter. Fyock opened it up with the team's only two pass completions out of 13 attempts during the afternoon...
...brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...
Neoding only one win the doubles to clinch the match, the Crimson put the pressure on and awept all three in straight sets. Place and Heckscher, Gottlieb and Beehm, and Charlie MacVeagh and Grayson Murphy provided the victories...
This was the crisis, and old Cavalryman de Castries knew it. At 0700, he gathered his last reserves and hurled in three desperate counterattacks. But Giap mostly held his gains, then sent in his Red reserves to clinch the battle. De Castries had only one remaining 105-mm. howitzer, one 155-mm. field gun. His tanks were wrecked or embedded in the mud. His ammunition was all but gone. One outpost commander phoned De Castries: "We can keep on fighting for only ten more minutes. Should we surrender?" De Castries snapped back: "Keep on fighting for ten more minutes...
Coach Jack Barnaby's team won all of the singles matches to clinch its first Eastern Intercollegiate League victory of the season. All of the wins were in straight sets except for the fourth and fifth, where Harris Brooks edged Bill Frier, 6-1, 0-6, 6-4, and Gene Mann nipped George Olmstead...