Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked up a tiny marmoset monkey. On the train from New York, in the dining car, I had him inside my coat. And the waiter, who had just set a fruit salad on the table, suddenly saw a long hairy arm reach out from my chest and clutch a grape. He gaped in horror and almost upset somebody else's dinner. . . At college, he developed a taste for beer and would sit on top of a can, reach down the opening with his arm, and after three handfuls of beer he was falling all over the place...
Night Entrance. In Scranton, Pa., after being turned away from a saloon that was closed for the night, Francis J. Mann got in by ramming it twice with his car, thus demolishing 1) the front door, 2) a clutch of cuspidors, 3) half...
...women; 2) Southern Democrats for Ike. For Federal Security Administrator he picked Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...
...into the dry cactus plains, Italy's Bracco lengthened his lead over Kling to seven minutes, left the other two Mercédès half an hour behind. But on the afternoon lap of the next-to-last day, Bracco's luck finally ran out. The clutch of the Ferrari burned out, and the Italian watched in helpless rage as the three Mercédès-Benzes roared...
...cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...