Word: clincher
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Smalling's shot skipped through a crowd of Crimson jerseys to net, where Dupuis was able to dive to his left side and get his hands on the ball, but it trickled through for the clincher...
...According to Derek Sears, the journal's editor, the clincher came when AH 84001 was compared with rocks from the moon -- the control experiment of lifelessness. "Within an hour of looking at the lunar meteorites, we knew," said Sears. "We found objects on the lunar meteorites that we cannot distinguish from the Martian meteorites." What's more, iron oxide crystals on the rock suggest it was formed at temperatures eight times higher than boiling water -- too high to support life. Not that this means the Red Planet is and always was a dead planet; we just have to look...
...knock down the basketball straw man first. If someone plays defense like Bill Russell, passes like Isiah Thomas, scores like Julius Erving and rises to the occasion like Larry Bird, it's hard to argue against him. The clincher comes in the context of his team. When Jordan's around, the Bulls win championships. When he's off flailing at minor-league curve balls, they...
...divine intervention did indeed play a part in one of the better field-goal duals since the Giants stole the NFC Championship from the 49ers on a Matt Bahr clincher in 1991, it's now time for the Crimson to assess precisely why Saturday's win was ugly--and to recognize that this heavenly visit may have been a onetime deal...
Brown provided a good deal of that heart, winning Games 1 and 6 and battling a stomach flu in between. With a 4-run lead after six innings of the eventual clincher, Florida manager Jim Leyland tried to take the weakened Brown out of the game, but the pitcher threw a respectful fit, and Leyland acquiesced. Even when the tying run came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, Leyland kept him in there, feeling Brown deserved to be on the field when the final out was made. When Chipper Jones hit into a force for that...