Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Assault's Jockey Warren Mehrten "Usually all I gotta do is clutch him and he goes. Today I clutched him and he didn...
...forces pushed over a brace of tallies in the last of the sixth to break a 4-4 deadlock, only to have their opponents score thrice in the final frame and lead 7 to 6. Dunster tied the score in their half of the seventh, but failed in the clutch as the potential winning run died on third...
With deep relief (and some shame and resentment) the nation heard last week that John Lewis had relaxed his clutch. The nation's industry could...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
...world-shaking meeting began, UNO seemed oddly like a setting hen with a nest in a threshing machine. It had a place out of the rain, a good food supply and a spot to brood on its clutch of world problems. But UNO seemed almost as preoccupied with keeping its beak out of the big city's machinery as in global meditation...