Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dmitri Vergun, a disappointment for most of the evening, sunk a hook which knotted the score at 47-47. From then on it was close all the way. A Tech basket with 58 seconds remaining sent the large cowds wild, but Hastings' lay-up 13 seconds later proved the clincher. Both teams missed chances to score in the final seconds...
...dribbled the ball upfield until he was about 25 yards away from the nets, and then skidded a pass to Hank Holmes, moving in from outside left. Holmes advanced until nearly at the end line, then passed to Hodnett in front of the cage, and Hodnett converted for the clincher...
...diet problem from the viewpoint of fat content. The fat in the U.S. diet, he points out, has been going up for 50 years; fats account for as much as 40% of its calories. In Sweden the proportion is 38%. But in Sardinia it is only 22%. The clincher, for Dr. Keys, is to be found among Yemenite Jews who had no coronary disease in their native habitat but have begun to develop it since they migrated to Israel and adopted its high-fat diet. Yet the amiable, blubber-eating Eskimos throw a monkey-wrench into the dietary-fat theory...
Bill Lingelbach, at inside right, put the Crimson ahead to stay when he booted in a curving direct kick from outside left Hank Holmes at 12:30 of the third period. Hodnett added the clincher, his sixth of the season, at 19:15 of the fourth quarter...
...Fuller has just been killed in a car crash, and studio bigwigs are arranging the funeral: "First off we thought of St. Patrick's ... an ideal place . . . They were nice about it, but they wouldn't buy. I think they were afraid of the crowds, but the clincher for them was that Herb wasn't a Catholic...