Word: clinching
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Harvard would clinch the division crown with a win or, assuming it prevails over a struggling Vermont squad on Saturday, a tie. The Crimson holds that edge on the merit of a resounding 6-3 win over Dartmouth in Hanover three weeks...
Wetzel lost his first set against Jamil Al-Agba, but took the final two sets to clinch the last singles point and the match for the Crimson...
...Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy - Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic - that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard...
Although Weiss was happy with the fire he saw from the other wrestlers that competed, they were unable to clinch victories for Harvard...
...agit-docs trace the Bush team?s hardball style back to tactics employed in earlier campaigns. ?Bush?s Brain,? directed by Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob, dips into Texas history to clinch its four-part thesis: that the cherub-faced Rove has run some demonic campaigns, that some of his low-road strategies won George Bush the governor?s mansion and the White House, that Rove is a dominant force in the President?s policies (Moore has called Bush ?Karl Rove?s finger puppet?) and that he?s been behind some of the Bush team?s sleazier escapades, like...