Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hockey title was sewed up by the Eliot skaters, who won all seven of their games, with Adams and Winthrop tussling until the final game of the season for second place. The Gold Coasters came up with a clutch victory, 9 to 4, last Friday to sneak into a tie for the red ribbon...
...Pond Run Farm" near New Richmond, Ohio, roly-poly John William Haussermann packed his bags. He put in some of his favorite blue suits, a clutch of flashy ties and plenty of cigars. Then he kissed his wife goodbye, took a last look at the Ohio River, where he swam as a boy, and drove into town to take the train. Last week, at 80, the gold king of the Philippines was on his way back to the islands to rebuild his war-shattered empire...
Captain Adam Foster's contest with Princeton's "Babe" Pearson was the clutch match, since it was the last to finish. Behind 2 to 1, Foster "never played better squash," according to Coach Jack Barnaby, to capture the final two games...
Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...
Forced to make do on a meager three pounds of potatoes a week during the long nights of rationing, patient Britons could find small comfort in the advice of the great epistler, but last week a clutch of lesser literary lights were doing their best to make up for Britain's lack of spuds with a bumper crop of digestible macaronics. Sample from the Evening Standard...