Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team this season with 29 points. Three of them came in the last minute of action and put the varsity only one point down, 74 to 77. But Dick Lionette and Ed Condon missed shots after that, and after Tufts' John Heneghan scored on a layup for the clincher, the Jumbos kept possession of the ball till the game ended...
...possession of the ball for most of the rest of the period, but declined several foul shots to take the ball out of bounds for the two-pointer. Finally, with five seconds to go, they tied it once more, and Biggs cut across the key-hole to score the clincher on a one-handed shot...
...poor. But most effective, both to Scrooge and the audience, is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come who never speaks but just points to Scrooge's old love (now working in a poor house), to Bob Crachit's family (mourning the death of Tiny Tim), and to the clincher--Scrooge's own grave. Here again we sense Dickens' suggestion that the strongest argument of all is still survival...
Last week Snow Crop took a drastic step to end some of its risks. It sold all its Florida processing plants (concentrated-juice capacity 14 million gallons a year) for $11 million to a growers' cooperative, the Florida Citrus Exchange. As a clincher, Snow Crop's boss, 60-year-old Charles W. Metcalf, quit his job and took over as manager of the concentrate operations. Under the deal, Snow Crop was assured of a constant supply of juice and hoped that most of its worries about gyrating orange prices would be solved...
...Stork Club before the Baker incident occurred. Cried Winchell: "I am appalled at the agony and embarrassment caused Josephine Baker and her friends at the Stork Club. But I am equally appalled at their efforts to involve me in an incident in which I had no part." As a clincher, he added a letter from Walter White himself, doubting that Winchell "would be a party to any insult to human dignity...