Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...clinch his charge of Washington's shiftiness, Knollenberg digs out pre-revolutionary correspondence of Washington with Royal Lieut. Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia, a letter to a contemporary historian in which Washington tries to shift the blame for the loss of Fort Washington to Congress and General Greene, letters showing that Washington engaged in shady land deals. Knollenberg also claims that Washington did not, as he implied, lose the Battle of Brandywine because General Gates refused to return a borrowed corps. Washington did not request Gates to return the corps until 13 days after the Brandywine defeat. There are also...
Timothy Dwight's eleven rolled up a 13-0 victory over Adams to clinch the Harvard-Yale House championship on Friday afternoon. The Gold Coasters had banked heavily on their passing attack, and when Yale interceptions turned it into a boomerang, were forced to rely on their weaker running plays...
...only an unofficial 110-mile ring around the Pole, plotted out by Captain Roald Amundsen when he reached the bottom of the world in 1911. But in January, King Haakon VII brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...
Despite its affectation, you are apt to like Abraham's "Flow Gently, As In A Mourning Moonlight"--that is, like it up to the last few paragraphs, where it almost goes off the track. Abrahams has failed to clinch a story that has been well built up to an empty conclusion. Along with Bonner, Martin Collins Johnson was scarching for a new twist to the Boy-girl formula. "A Prevue With Angels" is good but too much absorbed with the twist, which in this case is the glorification of an intelligent mistress who knows and fears that marriage will mean...
...even as he spoke a second Congress met in secret, duly proclaimed itself legally elected, and two days later declared General Juan Andreu Almazán the next President. To clinch its claims it went even further. Finding Cárdenas in violation of the Constitution for "using public force to impose Avila Camacho and by rendering his last address before a congress of usurpation," it named its own substitute, General Hector F. López, to fill out the remainder of his term...