Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia's awesome duo of Dotson and McMillian--who scored 50 points between them--came up with the clutch baskets and freethrows to pull out the game...
...drive a Fiat, and I live at a much slower pace. I spend lots of idle hours on lonely roads wondering when the tow truck will come, or sitting at the repair shop waiting for the mechanic to explain why the door handle fell off, the clutch cable snapped, and the horn doesn't work on a car that's only three months...
...TACKLES: George Kunz, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 5 in., 245 lbs.; and Dave Foley, Ohio State, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs. Whenever Notre Dame needed clutch yardage, a running back took off behind Kunz's blocking. A former tight end, he has the strength and agility to "pick up a big defensive end and whip him to the outside," says one scout's report. "He pass protects like a pro now." Foley is a "big, tough, mean lineman" from a school that specializes in turning out pro tackles. The scouts predict that he will win a starting...
...sophomore Steve Krause's triple win and clutch diving by sophomore Dick Eisenberg, the varsity swimming team squeaked by Navy, 57-56, in the Indoor Athletic Building on Saturday, evening its record at 1-1 in the Eastern Inter-Collegiate Swimming League...
Children Who Read. For all his seeming absorption with TV, Capote is no fan. As a boy, he used to feign illness so he could stay home from school and listen to radio soap opera. Television does not have that kind of clutch on him. He doesn't even have a set in his Manhattan co-op apartment or his mountain lodge in Switzerland. There is one in his beach house on Long Island, but the area is so remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm...