Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half saw the Crimson open up a ten point advantage at the eight-minute mark and spend the rest of the time trying to protect it. Columbia pulled within three points several times, but the varsity always managed to score in the clutch. When McClellan fouled out with three minutes to go, apprehension spread through the I.A.B., but Jack Foker did an able job as his replacement, scoring four of the varsity's last six points
...Florida. U.S. Judge Joseph Lieb ruled that a clutch of state school-segregation laws were unconstitutional. But instead of ordering schools directly to accept Negro applicants, Minnesota-born Judge Lieb called attention to the state pupil-placement laws, which give assignment authority to local school boards. Until pupil-placement laws are challenged and declared unconstitutional, said he, Negro applicants will have to abide by school-board assignments...
...Clutch. Hockey players are considered old at 30. At 37, the Rocket is admittedly past his peak; yet he has still managed 14 goals and 19 assists this season to tie for third place in the scoring standings. No one in the league is close to his career marks for goals (603); only Detroit's Gordie Howe can approach his mark for total points (Richard 1,047, Howe 942). The Rocket still holds the record for most goals in one season (50 in an abbreviated 50-game season, 1944-45). He is also one of the game...
...evening: $152,000 for an early and not especially rewarding Picasso that cost just $45,000 three years ago, was bought by Kirkeby only last year for a whopping $185,000. His loss on that canvas was more than compensated by record-breaking prices for a golden clutch of modern favorites: Modigliani, Rouault. Bonnard. Vlaminck, Signac, Morisot. Pissaro and Segonzac. The whole thing had the fever of a poker game, with the blue chips in the hands of professional gamblers...
...passes in the half, all of them flat and bullet-fast, arrowing directly into the hands of his receivers. He carried the ball only three times, but these netted him 25 yards and two touchdowns. And his play-calling showed real cleverness and poise, especially in the clutch...