Word: clincher
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...lackadaisical Gold Coast sextet just barely eked out a tie in the next game when Anderson sneaked the rubber past goalie Ullman while the last whistle was blowing. Ashwell (2), Rottschafer, and Burton scored for Lowell while McNichol (2), and Forte scored for Adams before Anderson's clincher...
...that his Clostridium had such characteristic plant features as vegetative cells, spores. The court observed that in the one-celled world the line between animals and plants is vague, that bacteria behave rather like animals. Arzberger showed that scientists nevertheless class bacteria as plants. Thereupon the court produced its clincher: the Congressmen who passed the plant patent law were not scientists...
...after a play-off with Harvard. In 1940 it won in straight games, capturing five in a row after it had tied its opener, 1 to 1, with Princeton. A 5-1 victory over the Crimson in the season's finale at New Haven a week ago provided the clincher, although the Elis needed only a tie in that game to claim the title. In sweeping to their notable triumph they tallied 31 goals to 11 for the opposition, scoring their victories by at least two goals in every game. In their return match with Princeton they routed the Tigers...
Johnny Leboutiller's goal in 15:10 of the second period turned out to be the game-clincher, for though out to be game-clincher, for though both teams had many scoring chances during the fiercely contested third period, excellent work on the part of both goalies kept the score...
...opinion that it can neglect ordinary international law. . . . The [Norwegian] Government cannot believe that the British Government, when having thought the case over, will not acknowledge that it is in open conflict with the principles of which it has itself so many times proclaimed." The Foreign Minister's clincher: "There is no international rule at all forbidding a war power to transport prisoners through a neutral area, in so far as navigation itself is not illegal...