Word: clinchers
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Eagle sophomore Gerry York's second goal, at 13:38 of the third period, was the clincher...
...Dietrich will testify for Steele. The trial is sure to produce a lot of heat, and has already confirmed one standard of modern corporate life. In seeking to prove that Steele was really not an important executive, Litton's attorneys pointed out what they obviously thought was a clincher: Steele did not have a company car, while Thornton did, and Thornton's office was "much larger, better equipped, had private convenience facilities." Translation: Tex Thornton had an executive washroom...
...clincher for the Gaullist plans was to come last week. The Munich convention of Strauss's Christian Social Union, the Bavarian affiliate of the C.D.U., was to issue a call for a drastic reorientation of West Germany's foreign policy. The shift was to be formally adopted at a meeting in Bonn of the Gaullist-packed C.D.U. directorate, under Adenauer's chairmanship...
With 19 seconds left in the game. Boston led by only two points 101-99. Trying for the clincher. Forward Heinsohn fired and missed. Everybody converged on the basket, clawing for the rebound. Chamberlain reached up, but Russell got there first. "Flailing like a wheat thresher, he bounded high into the air, plucked the loose ball off the backboard and, all in the same motion, rammed it through the basket-"all the way up to my elbows." he said later...
...golfers had scored decisive victories against Holy Croas and Brown before the roof fell in at Ithaca. Number three player Pete Tague and number five man Bob Seelert didn't make the trip, and the makeshift Crimson seven just couldn't hold on. The clincher came when John Olson dropped his match on the 21st hole...