Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Statistics show Harvard has lost 80 per cent of its 5-4 bouts in the past two seasons. Winning close bouts comes with experience, and with many former New York public school champions, Columbia has a distinct edge in experience. "They always are able to bear down in the clutch," Marion said...
...singers were wailing away in tongues that sounded like a cross between banshee and Bantu. Now, after the takeover of the folk rockers, the words are understandable and, in some cases, even worth understanding. In recent months the pop market has been penetrated by a new and impressive clutch of poet troubadours. They are mostly ex-folk singers who turn out their own numbers, are older than their forerunners and more musically sophisticated. They write songs with titles like A Single Desultory Philippic and Sunshine Superman. The recurring themes are loneliness, alienation, and lovers who walk "on frosted fields...
...Clutch Saves...
Hammond went high in the air to tip one hard shot over the goal, and made an equally spectacular deflection on a low, hard bullet aimed at the lower left corner by right halfback Bil Smoyer. The Crimson captain came up with 8 clutch saves in the fourth quarter and 17 overall in his best performance to date...
Brooks Robinson is, next to Willie Mays, probably the greatest clutch player in the game today, and Frank Robinson killed the Dodgers when the Reds won the pennant in '61; but before and after those two there ain't much. Unless you think Big Boog Poweel will be able to hit Sandy Koufax, which...