Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that may clinch the election for Dewey could be the few thousand anti-Dewey votes that are wasted on the American Labor Party nominee. The ALP, Vito Marcantonio's group, has been widely tagged with the Red label and is not expected to draw many votes, especially since the Korean War. However, in a really close election the marginal ballots could make the difference...
...freshman race was another close thing. Neither team placed enough men in the first five to clinch a victory, although the '54 harriers all showed exceptional promise for coming years...
...Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...
...Britain's Geoffrey Duke, 27, on his Norton. For the world title, Masetti held a slim lead, 22 points to 19, based on six previous races this summer (eight points for first, six for second, four for third, etc.). In the final at Monza, all Masetti needed to clinch the 1950 title was to finish no worse than second to Duke...
...more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch the title next year when its two new luxury passenger liners, the Independence and the Constitution, are put in service...