Word: clincher
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...pace. All who play against him have the same complaint: "He makes you feel like you are backing up and backing up until you can't back up any farther." And at that point, Jake has most likely worked his way forward to the net for the clincher. Says he: "After a forcing shot, the odds of clinching a point at the net are 8-1 in your favor." He is a thoughtful young man, according to his lights, and he plays percentage tennis...
Immediately afterwards, Captain Wes Flint rippled over the 220 lows in 23.8, just two tenths of a second off the Harvard record, but instead of being the meet's clincher, it was only the denouement...
...second period proved the margin of victory. Needham rallied to score twice at the start of the third period and pull up to within one goal of a tie, and the final outcome remained in doubt with both teams staging frequent scoring attacks until Lou Preston sunk the clincher at 15:30 unassisted...
...Taft's mind the clincher was the "same general softness" in the "Lilienthal report." According to Taft, the plan (until modified by Bernard Baruch) would have permitted "an international authority to duplicate our atom manufacturing plants throughout the world-including Russia." Taft's conclusion: "I do not want to see a man as muddled in his thinking on questions of international power in charge of our atom-bomb policies. I would consider his confirmation a real threat to our national safety...
Trailing 5 to 3 at the beginning of the third period, the Yearlings fought their way out in front as leftwingman Larry Ward drove home two of his total of five markers in quick succession and Gid Loring whacked Haven Abbett's pass into the not for the clincher...