Word: clincher
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...with food wrappers, strategically equivalent to attacking a tank with a paper airplane. The Sox fan was annoyed enough to turn around and yell, “What’s wrong with you? Sitting down in the bottom of the ninth?” Then he adds the clincher, “No wonder you guys are in last place...
...magic was the series clincher. Yale erased a 3-1 deficit to take a 4-3 lead on a goal at 4:48 of the third period. At that point, captain Steve Moore took over the game. He setup sophomore Brett Nowak's tying goal and then battled for a rebound in front of the net to take a 5-4 lead at Harvard never let back, pouring it on for a 7-4 victory...
...everyday scene, like a cook weighing flour in a kitchen. Not many women had baubles like these to gloat over. The clincher to its meaning hangs on the wall behind her: a Last Judgment scene, with the dead resurrecting under the presence of God in the sky. Their souls, the Bible says, will be weighed in the balance, that archetypal symbol of judgment whose tiny relative is held by the woman Vermeer has painted. As it is on earth, Vermeer insists, so it will be in heaven. But he's no spokesman for holy poverty. He is too much...
...will always be remembered for stripping Karl Malone of the ball in the closing moments of Game Six of the 1998 NBA Finals, and then promptly schooling Byron Russell from the free throw line to hit the championship clincher...
Broughton won the clincher for the Crimson at third singles, playing determined tennis en route to an inspired 7-5, 6-4 victory...