Word: clincher
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...father would fix him with an eye regarded in some New York financial circles as imperious, but betrayed only the stupidity of six generations of inbreeding, and would ask him a question and he would try to answer and sit back down. Finally, the elder DuPont asked him the clincher--What will you do with your life, young man? When Shapiro tried to answer he couldn't, because he knew something awful was going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which...
...beer keg on the back of the Chevy Blazer may have tipped you off, as well as the bloodthirsty crowd, but the real clincher was the 30 bloody, sweaty guys in shorts battling violently for some kind of ball. There was no tea in sight. Or crumpets either...
...score was 3-2 for Winthrop House and the clincher came with less than a minute left. Steve Mullin scooped up a loose puck to the left off the crease and fired it through a crowd sending the Winthrop squad into raucous celebration...
...things come out perfectly, the score will be 1-0--there will be a single goal towering over the whole season--and the clincher will come on a strange play, the kind nightmares are made of. For example, we could imagine a superb defensive player like Dupuis accidently deflecting a Princeton shot into...
Many gut-hunters were discouraged by the lengthy assignments. But the clincher came with Hoberman's answer to the question about course requirements: there will certainly be a final and a 20-page paper--"this is a course course." That sure sent most of them scurrying...