Word: clincher
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stayed behind, lingering over the highlights from the clincher. I’m saving my street celebrations for next week...
...came from sophomore Derrick Barker. Barker struggled in the Holy Cross game, and the second-year player had a tough start to the day, matched up against speedy Brown receiver Paul Raymond. But he found more of a rhythm in the second half—his interception was the clincher, coming with just over 1:30 left in the game. The spirit of the defense in the second half is promising for a squad that has to travel to Lehigh next weekend and face dual-threat quarterback Sedale Threatt. But it seems the Harvard...
Senior shortstop Lauren Brown hit a two-run home run to left in the top of the fourth to break a 2-2 tie and the Crimson (31-13) held on to win the series clincher in front of over 300 fans...
...Ronald Reagan and accelerated during the Clinton years, has been a spectacular boon to northern Virginia. The once green region offered land, few restrictions on business and a transport hub in Dulles International Airport. The presence of the Pentagon, that greatest of cash-spewing economic-development engines, was the clincher...
...took TIME six weeks to piece together our investigation - the clincher was an interview with a girl who survived a killing spree by Marines inside her home - and then we turned our evidence over to the U.S. military command in Baghdad. The military launched a full inquiry, which lasted 13 months, splitting into two separate investigations: the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians, and the failure of Marine superior officers to truthfully investigate and report what had happened. In other words, some of the Marines tried to cover up the slayings...