Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...melodrama, The African Queen can be seen as a weird-sort-of-pastoral. Allnut and Rose fall in love early in the film and spend most of it being sentimental and affectionate. Allnut shaves, his coarseness quite obliterated by romance, and Rose's up-tightness vanishes after the first clinch; the boat becomes a house in suburbia and Allnut views the tropical wilderness as a New England landscape, saying, "I'd like to come back 'ere some day." Increasingly, they address each other in blissful euphemisms: 'Dear, what's your first name?" asks Allnut, later calling her Rosie and "sweet...
Eliot Houses boxers captured five individual titles to clinch the team championship...
Faced by hot-shooting sophomore A1 Hall, who poured in 19 points, Quincy overpowered second-place Winthrop, 59-48, Monday night to clinch the undisputed A League championship. The Winthrop B team made up for the A loss by trouncing Eliot yesterday for the tittle...
...third time in his career, Gustavson stepped to the line and did the job. As he did against Brown earlier, he swished the clutch shots to clinch the game...
...players as they fly to Ithaca, N.Y., for tonight's game with Cornell. The Crimson skaters played the latter role only two months ago, folding before the Big Red 9-0 at Watson Rink. But it is five years since Harvard held the Ivy League title which it would clinch by a triumph at Cornell's hostile Lynah Rink...