Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much less liable to be involved in a major way than if we hesitate now and become involved later. I realize the potentialities, and naturally, when I go into this thing I am prepared to go through with it." General Twining, speaking for the Joint Chiefs, supplied the clincher: The Pentagon leaders, he said, "are unanimous in their opinion that this is the only sound course of action...
...Center, French picked out Dominican Consul General Arturo Espaillat as the man he had seen talking to Murphy when he rented the plane. ("With FBI agents around me, I followed him into a candy store. I positively identified him, and my heart jumped clear up in my throat.") The clincher in the FBI files: Murphy's original flight chart to Monte Cristi, including his handwritten notes, left behind with French...
Jacques LaFrance finished a solid fifth, but it remained for two darkhorses, Robin Nelson and Sam Young to apply the clincher, as they finished ninth and tenth, well ahead of Yale's fourth...
Dunster won its fourth game in six starts by edging Leverett 2 to 1. Left wing Jean-Claude Aime paced the Funster attack and scored the initial goal, while Frank Loewald applied the clincher...
...money was as distasteful as the fight itself. Between rounds, a glassy-eyed young pitchman trundled before the viewing public one dull, lumpy Buick "salesman" after another. Wearing Panama hats, they muttered mostly about this being a dandy time to get a good deal on a Buick. The clincher came at the fight's crucial moment. As Referee Ruby Goldstein snaffled the bludgeoned Jackson away from his opponent and signaled a TKO, Buick butted in, sealing off to millions of viewers all the activity in the ring. Some 400 letters of protest bombarded Buick...