Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Melinda Wang followed suit in fifth singles,smashing Siema Shah to clinch the match...
Most days Hartman is in the thick of it. Invariably dressed in a windbreaker and running shoes, he prowls the classrooms eager for combat. Heated debate is the norm at Hartman's place. Eavesdrop long enough and you will likely hear an eclectic collection of world-class brains clinch philosophical arguments by telling one another they're "full...
...Irvine was no exception. Harvard's doubles tandems of Roger Berry/Leschly and Chang/Cardi prevailed to clinch the tourney's championship...
...operas and ballets. But it took the money and clout of her two friends to surmount vehement opposition to it. Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively. Then Copley's opinion-making dailies swung behind it. To clinch the deal, Kroc kicked in with a $2.8 million Faberge egg she had bought at auction for the occasion in Europe...
Talent's foil, Guy Clinch, is a British Sherman McCoy, the Wall Street fall guy of The Bonfire of the Vanities. "He had a tremendous amount of money, excellent health, handsomeness, height, a capriciously original mind; and he was lifeless," writes Amis of Clinch. Samson Young, the narrator and American scribbler who thinks he is writing Amis' novel, represents cultural lowlife. "A little media talk and Manhattan networking soon schmoozed her into shape" is his oily take on subduing Guy's wife Hope...