Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than enough to get him into the White House. But CBS was assuming that Illinois' 27 votes would go to Kennedy, and, hour by hour, his lead there was dwindling away until it stood at a mere 46,000. If Kennedy lost Illinois, his last big chance to clinch the election was California. But even there, with half of the state still to be tallied, Kennedy was just plugging along in front by 80,000. Dawn was beginning to break over Manhattan when the experts, who earlier in the night had been blithely predicting a Kennedy landslide, were cautiously...
...pans up slowly on her nude body from feet to calves to knees to thighs to a lap dissolve. Topping that, the film contains what is probably the most uproarious juxtaposition of images in the history of cinema. As the rapt Cannes audience watched the young fiancés clinch, the bedroom suddenly faded, giving way to a railroad switchyard. In closeup two train cars coupled, while locomotive pistons made background noises. The audience howled. The Japanese producers, caught with an arty touch that misfired, indignantly wondered what had happened...
...scuffle. Charged with murder, the pair are defended by two attorneys-he by a boozy old bungler, she by a fast-talking, hard-sweating young attorney (Anthony Franciosa) who seems to be terribly afraid that he will not get his client out of the clink and into the clinch. The poor boy does not seem to understand, as audiences readily will, that the lovers are not really being tried for murder but for adultery, that the jury is not on the screen but in front of it, and that the camera is fighting for the lovers just as hard...
Winning all their matches, three members of the Crimson chess club swept Yale and Brown off the board to clinch the eastern division of the Ivy League chess championships held here yesterday...
...Coburn sits on a pie, and squirts water in various directions; Marilyn Monroe, impersonating a blonde secretary, tells Grant, "Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I've been careful to get here before nine"; the thing ends with Grant and Miss Rogers in a snugly marital clinch...