Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University administration has got the whole world in its hand, and sometimes the squeeze is too much to bear. An affectionate clutch can become a stranglehold, and noble hearts often bleed for ignoble purposes...
...deep right-center, only to be stranded there as the next three batters failed to bring him in. In both the third and seventh innings, the varsity put men on third with two outs, but neither Captain Bob Cleary nor pinch-batter Jim Shue was able to deliver the clutch...
...came from the course itself-the wicked 5.2-mile grind over the taxiways and runways of Sebring's seldom used airport. One circuit on the unbanked hairpin turns and short straightaways calls for 21 gear shifts; the driver who finishes the twelve-hour test pumps his clutch at least 4,300 times. Tires get cooked on the baking concrete. Brakes take the worst beating...
...Clutch of the Law. In Milwaukee, James Godsey, 24, fed up with his balky car and ten parking tickets, left this note tucked under the windshield wiper: "Mr. Policeman, the keys are in the car; I can't get it started, and you can have...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...