Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, a clutch of angry, elderly demonstrators stormed a U.N. flag-raising ceremony. They chanted "U.N. is un-American," wagged U.S. flags in the faces of sheepish councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town...
...second game, the Phillies' Robin Roberts and the Yankees' Allie Reynolds went into another pitching duel and at the end of the ninth the score was 1-1. In the tenth, Joe DiMaggio stepped up and demonstrated his old specialty: winning ball games with clutch home runs. Score...
...seventh inning, and most of the 64,505 spectators in nominally hostile Yankee Stadium roared hoarse approval of Sawyer's whiz kids. But with two out in the eighth, the Yankees tied things up on an error by Shortstop Granny Hamner, went on to win with more clutch hitting in the ninth. Score...
...himself he was the series goat. "I've made a lot of errors in my life," he said, "but that one . . ." Actually the series had no goat. It also produced no new towering heroes. The standouts, apart from the pitchers: aging (35) Joe DiMaggio, on his fielding and clutch hitting; quiet, self-effacing Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 26, 1949's rookie-of-the-year, who figured in five of his team's six runs in the first three games...
Konstanty may have learned enough this year to pitch a fine complete game. Then, again, he may not. In any case, Vic Raschi has been starting, finishing, and winning games two and a half years. He does not have a reputation for choking in the clutch...