Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trained personnel for banks. Bids were made by Teheran, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo. Finally, the Philippine delegation suavely stymied lobbying for rival cities with a reception for conference-goers and a lengthy dinner cruise around Manila Bay, ostensibly to celebrate their bank governor's birthday. That seemed to clinch things. On the final ballot next day, the Asian nations gave Manila nine votes to Tokyo's eight. In order to allow everyone to save face, an important commodity in Asia, they decided that there could be no losers, insisted on calling the vote unanimous...
Harvard had six first places to Army's five, but the Cadets grabbed enough important seconds and thirds to clinch the victory before the final relay. The group de grace came in the 500-yard freestyle, which Army sophomore John Williams won with an Army record time...
...barely three minutes earlier, he had climbed from the pool after a 49.1 victory in the 100. But Williams, with a 40-minute rest since the 200, pulled away steadily and won by a good fifteen yards. Army's Ken Cummings held off Shrout by three yards to clinch the meet...
Five thousand Brown fans screamed for the win that would clinch the Ivy title, but they were disappointed. Chris Ohiri headed in the game's lone goal in the fourth quarter and Harvard gained a tie for the crown with the Brownies...
...Bulger of Hurlbut, in a half-unconscious state, saved the game for Hurlbut with last-minute defensive heroics. Bulger suffered a concussion on the first play of the second half. But on the last Mower series he broke up an end run and then intercepted a pass to clinch the victory...