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Word: clinching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half as a result of his bad bone bruise, but the three touchdowns he put on the board before intermission, and a beautiful scoring drive executed by third-string QB Jack Riordan to open the second half--including Riordan's own 41-yard run--proved enough to clinch Harvard's second Ivy victory-(against no defeats) on the year, and raise the Crimson's overall record to 3-1. Harvard is in second place, behind Penn (3-0), in the league. And--further delayed good news--Allard is expected to be okay for next week's important Ivy contest...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Gridders Rain Dance on Cornell, 25-13 | 10/12/1982 | See Source »

...Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's notorious pork-barrel project, the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor, was voted continued funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Bills | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

Bowdoin still had to put another goal past Judge in double overtime to clinch a 2-1 win over the Crimson, but McLaughlin's tally was indicative of the frustration the Harvard booters, the 1981 Ivy and Eastern champions, experienced on Bowdoin's home turf...

Author: By Becky Hartman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Soccer Team Loses Opener In Double Overtime to Bowdoin, 2-1 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...confrontation has taken place before. Rocky has made the star wealthy ($25 million from the first two installments), a leading man the equal of an Eastwood or a Reynolds, and a budding Hollywood business force. But his image as the boxer has kept Stallone's career in a clinch. His other roles, the labor leader in F.I.S.T. or the neighborhood loafer in Paradise Alley, attracted disappointing revenues and mixed reviews. After a moment, he turned to his fans, raising his fists and becoming Rocky for an instant, as if he were slipping into another skin. "You can break that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Howard Baker seems the perfect Government representative. But when the cuts concern his pork-barrel projects, like the Clinch River breeder reactor, he is not asking as much of himself as he does of other Senators. Baker may be a shepherd in party matters, but he is a wolf when legislation threatens Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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