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Word: clinchers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: An Act in Time | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Whitewash for Trujillo | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Rugby Club Favored Over Weakened Crimson Today | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Dunster, Adams Triumph | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bad Timing | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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