Word: clinched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard, which won the title last year, will keep the trophy (established for the first time last year) with either a win or an Rensselaer loss. Look for Harvard to clinch this Friday night against sixth-place Dartmouth...
...Cinch to Clinch: The top-ranked team in the nation, Maine, slipped a bit Friday night in its 7-6 overtime loss at home to Boston University, but a 6-1 pasting of the Terriers the next night clinched the Black Bears their second-straight Hockey East title. Sparking the victory, of course, was freshman sensation Paul Kariya, who is featured in this week's Sports Illustrated (the one with all the scantily clad women). The report likens the small and speedy Kariya to Wayne Gretzky and calls him a shoo-in for the Hobey Baker award...
...senior. I've paid my dues--around $80,000 worth. To clinch matters, one of my former roommates starts for the football team. Another suited up for a couple of seasons. The least the Athletic Department can do--or so I assume--is reciprocate with some tasty seats...
...features. For shameless emotional manipulation, however, the show may set new standards. A report last week on a Pennsylvania company accused of selling machine tools to Iraq was loaded, irrelevantly, with grieving parents of dead U.S. soldiers. A story on forecasting failures at the National Weather Service tried to clinch its case by coaxing tears from a woman whose husband had been killed by a freak storm. Ratings so far are promising, alas...
...Erin Maher, who had been quiet for much of the game, nailed a trio of treys to clinch the victory for the Crimson...