Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German Movie Director George Wilhelm Pabst, hired to restage Aïda, crammed three elephants, four camels, ten horses and a cow onstage, with 1,500 people, 2,000 Riviera palms, and a 53-ft. Egyptian statue. As a clincher, a navigable canal (representing the River Nile) stretched between the stage and the 30,000 onlookers. The singing, with Italy's current top Soprano Maria Callas as Aïda and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames, was first-rate...
...Benson's third reason was the one he felt most strongly: he was a clergyman, one of the Twelve Apostles who guide the Mormon Church. No clergyman should have to take a job where politics might compromise his principles. That was the opening for Ike Eisenhower's clincher. "Mr. Benson," said he, "we have a mandate from the American people to restore their faith in the U.S. Government. Surely you agree that that is a spiritual...
...which is to say that Beck, and his league leading teammates will be at the Blockhouse Monday night looking for, the first place clincher. Beck scored 30 points against the Crimson earlier this year...
...record mark, people who had never seen a horse race were asking: "Will he make it?" Tony did, getting in under the wire in the last race at Tropical Park on the next-to-last day of the year. On New Year's Eve, as a clincher, Tony rode Winner No. 390, two more than the longtime record of 388, set by Walter Miller in 1906 and tied in 1950 by Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culm one.* For little (5 ft. 2 in., 106 Ibs.) Tony DeSpirito, the record was a victory scored against long odds...
...Clincher. Four months later he got it. Hoffner's conviction rested on the testimony of a waiter. He was the only one who had identified Hoffner as the killer. Mowery discovered that the first time the waiter tried to pick Hoffner out of the lineup, he failed. Pressed by defense lawyers to explain why he missed Hoffner the first time, the witness said he had not seen him in profile, as he had viewed the killer. But Mowery checked into the line-up record, proved that the witness had seen Hoffner's profile, and even...