Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably be the writer who suddenly becomes aware that Mickey Mantle is not the Joe DiMaggio of the future, but the Mantle of today, a fine ball player who is as much a threat and clutch hitter as Joe ever...
...year's "miracle finishing" Giants this time couldn't make it go all the way. The difference this time was not in the Dodgers, however, but in the Giants. No longer did Durocher have Ed Stanky to whip some spirit up, nor Bobby Thomson to hit .360 in the clutch month, nor a reliable Big Three pitching staff to win the close ones...
Word got around that Harrell was a singer who never choked in the clutch of modern music. Without so much as raising his sun-bleached eyebrows, he spoke the rhythmically complex narrator's part in the world premiere of Schönberg's Ode to Napoleon with the Philharmonic in 1944, sang the lead in Bernard Rogers' opera The Warrior...
...really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara. Psychiatrists, peering into these lurching, honking, metallic herds, discovered all sorts of aberrations in the clutch-happy humans behind the steering wheels...
...busy President posed only for the grave, ruddy head, but his subject's false teeth gave Stuart trouble, and he never got the mouth to look quite right. As a result, the painting has a somewhat grandmotherly air-despite the sword which Washington seems to clutch for assurance as he extends a reassuring right hand. The vague resemblance of the figure to a teapot, with the arms serving for handle and spout, earned the picture a sneering title: "The Teapot Portrait...