Word: clinching
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Lingman, however, was able to hold off Prentice at 6-4 in the second set to clinch the win. Green, playing No. 1, lost in three and Styperek lost to Krepelka to finish out the match with...
...team can also view the win as a suitable warmup to a big weekend. The Crimson's record now stands at 6-1 heading into this weekend's games against No.1 Pennsylvania and Princeton. The women's team also has the opportunity to clinch the Ivy League Championship with wins the weekend...
...founding in 1921 it has grown some 19,000 sq. ft., the Phillips Collection still feels more "livable" than any other in America. It is a memorial, but without funerary overtones. It commemorates Phillips' brother James, who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, and his father Major Duncan Clinch Phillips, who died the previous year. They were to be remembered not by the tomblike associations of the museum but by the vivacity...
Rather than mix it up, leading candidates Bush and Senator John McCain exchanged pleasantries and compliments, remaining in a clinch rather than throwing punches. Although the repeated challenges about his experience in governing and foreign policy had Bush testily chanting phrases from his stump speech, his opponents failed to provoke either a gaffe or a temperamental outburst. Meanhile, McCain deflected jabs about his reported temper with humorous, self-deprecating quips ("You know, a comment like that really makes me mad.") Outside the arena, the news for Bush was less good. Although Bush has reined in a lot of McCain...
Harvard needs only a tie to clinch sole-possession of the championship...