Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside of Bill Thompson, who is hampered by a cold, the squad is in the best physical shape of the season, and confident that it will come up with the clutch performances to outscore favored Yale and complete its third consecutive undefeated season...
...charging Crimson line offset a tight, yet inexperienced Amherst defense Saturday, enabling the varsity soccer team to take its second straight match, 3 to 2, in overtime. The seasoned Crimson forwards looked especially good in the clutch, and provided the margin in a well-played contest...
Ordered to stop about 500 yards from the bank, John Kuhel saw a jeepload of U.S. military police rounding the corner, and decided on a desperate chance. He raced his motor, pulled the wheel hard left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand...
...thrust, however, would be comparatively small. It might be fine for cruising around the far reaches of the solar system, but it would not be strong enough to tear the spaceship out of the clutch of the earth's gravitation...
...darkest Africa, where the British introduced soccer along with other Anglo-Saxon blessings, one-shoed King Freddie of Buganda, leading a clutch of his chiefs, kicked off with his bare foot against a team of Britons calling themselves the Abagurusi (Senile Ones). Cantabrigian Freddie, 31, whose popularity forced...