Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George." As a clincher, Kuhn cried: "You don't get justice in a German court," said he would prefer a U.S. court* "any time...
Ossman Scores Clincher...
Legionnaires were subdued. Suddenly and forcibly, they had been made to realize that their hooligan antics had ceased to amuse. The clincher was the problem of next year's convention. Wailed a committeeman: "For the first time in our history, we have no bid from any city." Nobody seemed to want the American Legion...
Hoping for a "clincher" in the University political-race, the Young Republican Club will spring Oregon Senator Wayne Morse in an address at 8 p.m. tonight in the New Lecture Hall...
...Commons last week for an initial town-planning appropriation of $2½ million. Ottawa, said he, should be to Canada what London is to England, Paris to France, Washington to the U.S. For good measure, he rang in the Athens of Pericles and the Rome of the Caesars. His clincher: "Canada may have a future greater than that of the countries I have mentioned . . .* It has possibilities of development that no other country begins to possess...