Word: clinchers
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...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...
...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...