Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the fighters touched hands at the beginning of the fifteenth, Stribling's face was smeared with blood, his mouth was cut and swollen, his left eye had begun to draw together bruised and dark like the halves of a musselshell. He tried to clinch immediately but after two minutes of fighting Schmeling landed the right he had been trying for all through the fight. Stribling fell on his face, got up when the referee had counted nine. He tried to clinch again. When the referee saw that Stribling, leaning in, was supported almost entirely by the punches Schmeling...
Unfortunately the result was not all that the good Father had hoped. Newspapers made a great but skeptical fuss. Protestants openly disbelieved; agnostics thought there was a trick in it; the Roman Catholic Church was more or less embarrassed. Finally Father Malachy, persuaded by an anxious colleague to clinch the matter by performing another miracle, prayed that the dance hall should be returned to its original location. It was done; and in 48 hours the public had forgotten it had ever moved...
...were victorious over their Eli rivals thus putting Harvard far in the lead. In the 165-pound competition, Yale scored when John Brodie defeated Captain W. A. Robertson '31 after a hard struggle. G. L. Graves '32 then took the 175-pound contest from Van Munson of Yale to clinch the meet for his team. Four minutes later the match ended when Rotan, Yale heavyweight, pinned his Crimson opponent, R. W. Straus '31 with a bar and chancery hold after a spectacular struggle...
Admission by the Administration that Drought-area farmers could borrow from this $20,000,000 fund to feed their hungry families was all Congress needed to clinch the compromise. The Senate adopted it (67-to-15) as did the House. The President's signature followed immediately. Drought relief could no longer provoke an extra session...
Died. Richard Floyd Clinch, 65, president of Crerar Clinch Coal Co. and of the Chicago Auditorium Association, vice president of Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. Co. and of Chicago Rapid Transit Co.; of heart disease; in Chicago...