Word: clincher
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...bunch of eager sophomores sparkled for the varsity soccer team, but it took a seasoned veteran, Tadhg Sweeney, to apply the clincher as the Crimson downed Tufts yesterday, 1 to 0, on the Business School Field...
What Lukens wanted was a topnotch summer science camp for his boy. Finding none good enough, he thought of starting his own. The clincher: a casual hotel conversation that Lukens overheard about Gushing Island in Maine's Casco Bay. Long a fashionable summer colony, the 156-acre island was the site of Fort Levett, an obsolete Army base for which the Government was vainly asking...
...Students. Why do so few succeed? Kenya's young politician, Tom Mboya, blames lack of higher education facilities. When Mboya got scholarships for 81 Africans at 52 U.S. colleges and universities this year (TIME, Sept. 21), his clincher was that Kenya's Royal Technical College grants only sub-university diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, or somehow find their way overseas. So, too, must students from Tanganyika, third major country comprising British East Africa (pop. 21 million), an area one-fifth...
...zone for a safety and two points, then with a touchdown. After the half, Kinney continued to play effectively, but the Bullpups began to pass and run through the Yardlings almost at will. They soon closed the gap to 24 to 22 and, minutes later, scored the clincher on a six-yard plunge by Dave Weinstein to remain undefeated...
...couple of records that were duds. Undaunted, Marcucci embarked on a publicity campaign. He sent Fabian on a road tour, got him shots on local disk-jockey programs, and ran trade-paper teasers that screamed in big black type, "Fabian is coming!" "Who is Fabian?" Then came the clincher: "Fabian is here...