Word: clincher
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With the treasured Stanley Cup waiting to be presented, the Bruins carried a 2-1 lead into the final 20 minutes as they tried for the clincher on their home ice. But the Rangers, who skated 89 seconds near the end of the second period with two men in the penalty box, would not be denied. Rousseau tied the score at 2:54 when his shot dribbled through the pads of goalie Ed Johnston, who played another brilliant game in the Boston nets...
...clincher," Landry said unemotionally, "was when Mrs. Attorney General Mitchell called to inform me of my rights...
Coming at the end of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a film-clip of nine men and women (among them Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan) burning a pile of draft files. It works as a clincher, a final reminder that all the questions and speeches and arguments that have been spoken on stage in the previous hour and a half are quite real, quite serious. The documentary film of the real Catonsville Nine in action fits in perfectly well at the end of this play that recreates their trial. But it's hardly necessary, because Trial...
...clincher, in the eyes of many Asians eager for industry, is Ford's plan to divide production among several countries, each specializing in a particular component. Thus engines might be built in one country, transmissions in another and body parts in others. Outside of Japan, today's Asian auto industry is small and largely uneconomical. Nearly every country has its own assembly plants. Ford is the first American industrialist to offer a product designed especially for developing countries, to be produced on the basis of regional cooperation and duty-free import of components. His project would allow each...
...Well," he continued slowly, deliberately, moving in for the clincher, "I'm here to tell you today that our policy is the best possible policy, that all alternatives have been considered, and if you knew what we know you wouldn't be asking all these questions...