Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh from a clutch win over Princeton and Yale in last week's Big Three Meet, Harvard will run against the seven other Ivy schools, Army, and defending champion Navy. Coach Bill McCurdy rates the Cadets and the Midshipmen as the biggest challenges to a Harvard win with Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Penn outside shots...
...Senate floor, a clutch of colleagues surrounded Edward Vaughan Long, pounding his back, shaking his hand, offering effusive congratulations. Had the Missouri Democrat cast a courageous vote, delivered a coruscating speech, proposed a pioneering...
...unheralded juniors, Peter Dennehy and Frank Sulloway, came through with clutch performances to support Captain Jim Baker's first place finish as the injury-ridden Harvard cross country team scored a narrow victory in the Greater Boston Championships at Franklin Park yesterday...
...crisis with passionate disorganization: breaks between acts stretched out to 45 minutes, while bumps, crashes and muffled Italian curses were heard through the curtain. The productions themselves often recalled the bad old days when tempos dawdled indulgently, singers postured in front of improbable sets and acting was of the clutch-sob-and-stagger school. But by sticking to the 19th century Italian repertory and putting it over with some splendidly full-throated singing, the company also evoked the good old days, when Verdi and Puccini called La Scala home, when such singers as Enrico Caruso and Adelina Patti blossomed there...
...opener last April on, the Sox were always down but never out. Hadn't we named them the "Cinderella Kids?" Week after week someone always came along to save them-Elston Howard from the Yankees, Ken Harrelson from the A's, Yaz with a homer, Jerry Adair with a clutch hit. Why should we have expected it to be any different today...