Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women completed the sweep, defeating the Big Red, 9-7. Harvard came through with clutch fencing, capturing four 5-4 bouts--including two in the final round--to secure its second Ivy win of the season...
...experimenting with overhauls of their welfare systems, focused on work requirements, and the Federal Government is talking about giving their efforts a formal blessing; 3) as a result, and at long last, something worthwhile might actually be done. Pondering the diverse sources and remarkably similar conclusions of a clutch of recent proposals, Senator Moynihan, a New York Democrat and lifelong student of the welfare system, finds in them a social analogue to a "rare alignment of the sun, the moon and the earth that causes all manner of natural wonders...
...were on our way home from Montreal after a weekend of bilingual debauchery when the muffler--possibly out of mechanical outrage at my amateur outrage at my amateur treatment of the clutch--slammed onto the pavement, leaving the car sounding somewhat like a Cuisinart trying to eat gravel: "Rrrr--KKKKK--ponkataponkata--WhaP...
...sight of his red and blue lights directly in front of a neon "BEER" sign didn't improve my amateur handling of the clutch. I was stone sober but starting to feel woozy as I desperately wobbled our growling vehicle toward the exit ramp. Dave, Kevin, and Nate--still under the effects of Montreal's 18-year-old bar scene--were too drunk to notice the hovering patrol car, until his red and blues started flashing...
...That's the way they play," fourth-line right wing Andy Janfanza said. "They're big guys who can't skate as well as we can, so they've got to clutch and grab...