Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herald Tribune Columnist Stewart Alsop, assumed that the "hard line" staffers who doubt the value of Russian promises on disarmament had won some sort of "battle for the President's mind." The Alsop story was that Strauss brought Scientists Teller, Lawrence and Mills to see the President to clinch the arguments for keeping the tests. Actually the scientists came to see Ike in his capacity of chief of state. And they came under the auspices not only of the AEC's Strauss, but of two leading members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, New York...
...friend's health, nags him about his drinking, clucks about his tubercular cough. In the end. Doc staggers up from his deathbed and reels out "to die with the only friend I ever had.'' They both survive, and in the moment conventionally occupied by the clinch, the two heroes stand face to face. In a voice charged with emotion, the marshal says: "I just wantcha ta know I'd a never made it withoutcha." And as he drags himself off to join the gorgeous, redheaded heroine (Rhonda Fleming), Actor Lancaster looks like...
...that was about it for the Crimson. Amherst tied the score in the third and tallied again in the sixth, knocking out started Dom Repetto. Reliever Joel Bernstein stopped the visitors in that frame, but couldn't handle them the next inning, as they scored twice more to clinch the victory. Meanwhile, Kambour held the home team hitless in the last three innings...
French scientists have not yet agreed about the validity of duck metamorphosis. To clinch the proof, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy are injecting 16 more ducklings with DNA. Their Blanche-neige ducks laid 27 eggs, which have now hatched. When they grow up, the world will learn whether DNA-induced changes can be transmitted to the second generation...
Five innings, however, constitute a legal game, and the tie will be officially entered in the record books. This result, indecisive as it was, enabled the Crimson to clinch its third consecutive Greater Boston League title...