Word: clincher
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Listen, instead, to Fitzpatrick explaining the drive to make the dream of an undefeated season of his own a reality, and how his favorite moment of the season was not the 35-3 win over Yale, or the 31-10 clincher over Penn, or even the moment that 21-point deficit against the Bears was erased...
After the closely fought second game, the third frame was anticlimactic. The Nittany Lions’ defense—notching 11 team blocks, eight more than Harvard—shut down the Crimson attack, holding Harvard to a negative hitting percentage en route to a 30-15 clincher...
...evidence included a "cluster" of nine patients in and around Los Angeles; each had had sex with people who later developed AIDS-related diseases. It was bolstered by the growing number of intravenous drug users infected by the disease. Addicts share germs when they share needles. Then came the clincher: cases of AIDS in hemophiliacs and later in recipients of donor blood. The pattern resembled that of hepatitis B, a blood-borne and sexually transmissible virus that is common among drug addicts, blood recipients and gay men. AIDS cases among Haitian men and women remained a puzzle until...
Facing a 15-point deficit with only 10:45 left in last night’s title-clincher against Dartmouth (16-10, 12-2 Ivy), Harvard (20-7, 12-2) ripped off a 26-4 run in less than eight minutes and willed itself to a 70-67 victory—and with it, a share of the Ivy League championship...
...Crimson swarmed the goalmouth with 13:02 to play, assistant captain Tom Cavanagh—camped behind the end line to the right of the RPI net—flung the puck into the scrum, where Watters tipped home the clincher...