Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharpshooting senior Mark Dillon Sank some clutch free throws in the final two minutes to help the Q Manoids to their third intramural title of the year. Quincy also won football and 'A' squash and finished second ice hockey...
...visitors eventually closed to within two with 1:57 remaining, but clutch free throw shooting by the Bruins ended Harvard hopes--for both last night and the postseason...
...mood, you buy the movie. Into the Night is irresistible because Landis' have-fun-with-it mood allows for crazy- acute characterizations that spin the spectator off balance and give him a giggle in the process. The whole oddball cast, which includes a movie buff's dream clutch of 17 Hollywood directors,* plays the moments of pathos as easily as the streaks of melodrama and farce...
This week we will give the Washington Monument another pat on the back. On Friday a clutch of history buffs will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its dedication. Perhaps its long struggle to maturity has given it special qualities of endurance. The monument has settled only about two inches in its century, though it was built perilously near a swamp. It is struck by lightning dozens of times each year. One crazed man scared everybody a few years ago when he threatened to bomb the structure...
Most striking, Reagan plans to eliminate entirely a clutch of programs, including loans by the Small Business Administration and the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak and urban mass transportation, and general revenue- sharing grants to cities and counties. The fact that nearly all of these slashes have been well publicized in advance does not make them any less bold an attempt to carry out Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep...