Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Captain Emil San Soucie, the Crimson strategy paid off as planned. John Bidwell, Al Blaylock, and Pete Rich went out fast and broke up the usual Yale scoring block by tiring the Eli's in the early part of the 4.2 mile race. The clincher came as the Crimson's Marsh Childs and Frank Nahigian came strong in the last mile and a half to pass the third, fourth, and fifth Yale scorers...
Said New York's Democratic Representative William E. Miller: "Army engineers construct nothing . . . They supervise . . . and they would probably have the people who are now employed by Niagara Mohawk to construct [the project] anyway." As a clincher, private powermen said they would impartially serve all customers, while the federal development would give more favorable contracts to cooperative and municipally operated utilities, at present servicing only 3% of the state's electric customers...
...staff burden themselves with such an enormous debt. Ratliff and his lawyers answered that it was the employees who had made the Enquirer a successful paper, and that there is no reason why it will not continue to make money and pay off the debt. As a clincher, they offered to pay $7,500,000 in cash. The argument won them a delay. Soon Ratliff went back to the court with an agreement from Halsey, Stuart & Co., investment bankers, to issue $6,000,000 in bonds to help buy the paper. A Cincinnati brokerage house also offered to underwrite...
...down payment for his job on the force. It also came out that city workers had fixed up the mayor's house with some $9,000 worth of improvements just before its tax assessment was reduced. Dreier's secretary stepped up and offered the clincher. The mayor had told her, she said, to lie before a grand jury investigating rackets and had also suggested that she falsify monthly reports of receipts for traffic fines...
...antis wanted to exhibit the skulls downtown as a clincher. But a flaw developed in the anthropological argument. A university instructor pointed it out: the Puget Sound Indians lived almost entirely on seafoods, rich in that sinister chemical, fluorine...