Word: clinched
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...flashing back to 1976. I'm talking about our own junior forward Eric Carter who won my vote this weekend with his "Rim-maiming, lion-taming, Casey-defaming, clinch-the-gaming" slam, the final two of his career-high 17 points in the Crimson's 70-67 victory over the Lions of Columbia...
With Marin at the service line, the Crimson managed to add five more to the scoresheet but Springfield's superior team play helped them clinch the second game...
Princeton improved to 5-1 and needed only a win over Columbia the following day to clinch the title while Harvard fell to 1-3. The Crimson's somber performance against the Tigers exemplified its season--another empty showing...
Last year, Yale squash Captain John Musto scraped out a fifth-match, fifth-game victory to clinch the competition for the Elis and wrest the national championship from Harvard...
...committees endorsed Bush's authority to negotiate a deal that Congress must vote up or down but may not amend. This so-called fast-track authority is crucial, because no country wants to bother hammering out a pact that Congress can then turn inside out. Presuming Bush's negotiators clinch a deal like the recent one with Canada -- and Congress approves it -- North America could achieve a truly open common market about the same time Europe does next year...