Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish gold reserves are down to a skimpy $57 million; dollar reserves are virtually exhausted. And despite an official ban on the existence of any political party except Franco's decrepit Falange, Spain abounds in opposition groups. Well known to Franco's police, they range from a clutch of monarchist factions to syndicalists and anarchists, all the way to the Communists, who though few in number, are well financed and gaining sympathizers, thanks to the government's endless plugging of the theme that the only choice open to Spain is "either Franco or Communism...
...took quick action, socked 14 of his 18 players with $100 fines for what he called the worst Detroit performance in 20 years. ¶ Terry Brennan, rudely fired last December as head football coach at Notre Dame despite a winning career record (32-18), turned his back on a clutch of other college offers, announced at a testimonial dinner in Chicago that he was joining the investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co. Brennan, 30, will also run a player-conditioning program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. ¶ Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England...
...good, solid nuclear explosion separate imprisoned oil from the tight clutch of tar sand? If it can, the world's oil reserves may soon be doubled. The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska. The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands...
...terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth from import privileges led Cubans to dub Scotch whisky "Old Tabernilla." U.S. Gambler Meyer Lansky, who ran the casinos in several big resort hotels in a deal with Batista, caught a chartered plane to Florida with a clutch of his top mobsters. Wherever the Batista supporters descended in the U.S., Cuban exiles turned out to hoot and jeer. Other exiles hired planes for the happy trip back home...
...Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President Arthur Hull Hayes: "Ever since 1954, we have been losing money at the rate of a few million dollars a year. But so has every...