Word: clincher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clincher came when Barry Goldwater strongly urged Andrews' election. Wired he to Andrews: "Your views on fiscal responsibility, less Government interference and a firm foreign policy are in accord with the sentiments of all Americans." When the ballots were finally counted, Winner Andrews had 47,068 to Hove's 42,479. Third-Runner Scott showed up with only 6,018, less than 7% of the vote...
...Roads. In the debate on the House floor, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, who conferred with White House Aide Larry O'Brien while guiding the bill through the House, applied the clincher in a lectern-thumping, 35-minute speech. Never in his 25 years in Congress, he said, had he at first held so many reservations about any bill. But he had decided that it "is the most important legislation affecting the economic front here at home" that he had ever presented to the House...
...redeeming comic episode of the show is the muscular seduction of a D'humian intellectual by a girl called Sue Ann Rockefellow (Mary Louise Wilson), whose clincher in the clinch is, "Shim, you have a friend at Chase Manhattan." As the corn-pone Congressman says, "You fellahs should have known what was going to happen when you sent overdeveloped girls into underdeveloped countries...
...hitting the knee with a little rubber mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord, and the patient cannot make the movement of his own volition. But after willing himself to do it often enough, the patient contributes some movement of his own. The clincher comes when the therapist swings the hammer and does not hit the right spot, but the knee jerks anyway. Somehow, nerve-muscle control has been extended from the spinal cord to the brain itself...
...clincher came last week in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Germany's daring Count Wolfgang von Trips flipped off the road last year, killing himself and 15 spectators. No accidents marred this year's race. Blasting his dark-green B.R.M. (for British Racing Motors) into the lead on the very first lap, Hill poured it on for 86 laps, hitting 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, taking the corners with precision. At the finish, he was 30 seconds ahead of the No. 2 man, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, in another B.R.M. Hill's average...