Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...explained why: woman "has faced the universe and made her home in it. ... Men, sheltered by their women, have used the universe as their playground. They may work in it, but they never quite grow up in it." Women are not very funny as actresses, either, said he. His clincher: "There are ... no Marx Sisters...
...months ago, at an unpublicized conference of top U.S. specialists in Washington, Dr. Holm produced his carefully documented evidence: he and his co-workers had immunized 250,000 Danes, cut their T.B. deathrate to one-seventh that of the unvaccinated. BCG, he said, "is absolutely safe." The clincher: a U.S. test of 3,000 Indians which produced the same impressive results (TIME, June...