Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clinch their case, the researchers report in the medical journal Circulation, they took readings on two patients both during friendly talks and during interviews in which psychiatrists probed for deep-seated elements of emotional upset...
...college men might meet and marry girls destined for a deferred education, Mrs. Heilbrun says "these are matters that arrange themselves." She also argues that college does not make girls better mothers of "very young children," who need love, time and attention, gifts better given undiluted with resentment." To clinch her argument, Mrs. Heilbrun points at the mature women she teaches at Columbia's School of General Studies...
...varsity baseball team missed a chance to clinch the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League pennant at New Haven Saturday as it lost to Yale...
...there's still a chance. The Crimson has now won 7 and lost 2 in E.I.B.L. play, while Army is on top--at least for the moment--with a 7-1 record. Butt the Cadets must beat favored Navy (5 wins, 1 loss) to clinch the flag. If the Middies win, they still have to take two more league contests to take the title...
...They can clinch a second place finish in the Ivy League by beating Yale at New Haven tomorrow, but the varsity lacrosse team needs a Cornell victory over. Princeton on the same day to get even a share of the top position. Strongly entrenched in first place and going for their sixth straight Ivy title, the Tigers make this second condition for a Crimson championship a remote possibility at best...