Word: clinching
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...Schossbeger's serves and blocks and Forman's perfect sets, the spikers increased their lead to 10-3. The Crimson finished off Dartmouth with a series of tremendous spikes, whipping the Big Green, 15-3, to clinch the match...
...hurry home from the Stadium Saturday afternoon and call Sportsphone to see how Bob, Geoff and myself have fared? Do you recompute Bob's magic number to clinch the title before hitting the Saturday night parties...
...order to clinch at least a share of its third title in five years, Harvard needs to win all three remaining league games. Given the Crimson's mediocre league play thus far, and the fact that Harvard's remaining slate includes the mighty Quakers, a 3-0 league finish is far from a certainty...
...reducing the huge U.S. grain stocks, which may reach 211 million metric tons this year, withered last week when the Soviet Union violated a long-term agreement and failed to buy the 3.85 million tons of U.S. wheat remaining in this year's quota. In an effort to clinch the deal by last Tuesday's deadline, the Reagan Administration had agreed in August to subsidize the wheat, but it was not enough to keep the Soviets from going to competing suppliers. Two days after letting the U.S. deal lapse, Moscow signed a five-year pact to buy at least...
Sometimes the news becomes more numerical than physical. Four Blacks killed by police. Hmm, we think, that's two more than yesterday. One more and the Sox clinch. We forget that those numbers are people, that those paragraphs are pain. That the boy was a real boy, with a real rubber bullet in his brain...