Word: clinching
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Confessions are supposed to clinch a case. And then there are confessions like the one that John Mark Karr made last week in connection with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Ten years ago, the 6-year-old beauty queen's terrible death and weirdly captivating life--the hair, the costumes, the come-hither poses--became the stuff of national obsession at the very moment the O.J. Simpson story was going stale. It even promised, like the Simpson case, to be a family affair, because from the first, suspicion fell on John and Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet's parents. But the killer...
...inflict maximum pain in the coming hours, and fighting on the ground will escalate - Israel lost a further seven soldiers Saturday, and fierce fighting in the coming hours portends more casualties on both sides. Come Monday morning, the situation on the ground will find the fighters in a clinch, and very likely trading punches even after the bell - punches whose consequences are always unpredictable...
...point on his foot, and I had the touch. The second I touched his foot, I knew I had it.”The sophomore’s gold medal helped catapult the Crimson to its first-ever NCAA national championship. Though Ungar’s victory did not clinch the title for Harvard—the sabre bouts were just beginning at the time—it gave the Crimson a significant boost in the race that allowed Harvard to hold off perennial champion Penn State on an intense final day of competition.So just hours removed from his personal...
...with Rensselaer and Union.The Crimson picked up only three points in the standings, earning a tie in Schenectady and a win against the Engineers at home but losing the other two contests.Harvard finally turned things around with a pair of overtime wins against Brown and Princeton.But in order to clinch a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson needed to play exceptionally well over a nine-day period against the top four teams in the conference.Facing an uphill battle, Harvard delivered. Though the Crimson dropped the first game of the set with a 4-1 loss to Colgate...
...Crimson in place for its postseason run—a run that eventually led to a berth in the NCAA tournament. With her goal at the end of regulation in the season finale against Clarkson, Raimondi gave the Harvard women’s hockey team a chance to clinch home ice for the upcoming playoff series between the two squads. Raimondi’s goal with one second left in overtime made that a reality. Riding the momentum from those two goals, the Crimson managed to slide by the Golden Knights in three games in the ECAC quarterfinals, going...