Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fever, would have to appear to save his Government. But a Laborite saved the day: wiry, grey-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining 22, six had been deferred for further consideration, 16 had been accepted in principle...
...brief case last week Frank Knox pulled assorted reasons for extending Lend-lease. The House Foreign Affairs Committee was only mildly interested. But off his cuff the Navy Secretary produced a clincher: a by-product of Lend-Lease, said he, will be our Allies' willing ness to be generous about transferring Pacific bases...
Again during the early part of the last period the Yardlings carried the fight, but as Truesdale and Cowen began to wear down under constant strain, the team's offensive drive faltered, and the Harrison to Riley combination pounded the clincher past O'Neill...
...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...