Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against Yale the Yardlings have consistently been unable to turn in good clutch performances. Last fall, both the Eli soccer and football teams fought from behind to tie the Crimson, and just a week ago Saturday the Yale squash squad managed a miraculous comeback to edge the Yardlings...
...conscience to be as big a man as he can," Woodrow Wilson said in a lecture at Columbia in 1906. "His capacity will set the limit." Few today would agree. In a world complicated by foreign committments, enlarged bureaucracy, and increased technology, it is almost a truism that a clutch of factors restrain the President...
...teammates get some practice in the first half before he settles down to business. (Two weeks ago he scored 37 in the second half against Cornell.) And many of the spectators were old-timers who had seen the heyday of the Harvard tradition of blowing 'on in the clutch...
Isometrics do nothing to improve anyone's dexterity, coordination or stamina, and will never result in acquiring a tan. But they do provide more strength faster than anything else. Their no-sweat convenience and brevity, plus their adaptability to anybody's problem area, has already spawned a clutch of manuals on the subject and a menu of exercises as long as an unflexed arm. The U.S. Navy has endorsed the exercises, and its magazine, All Hands, has published a series of nine isometrics that it calls "ideal for Navymen whose duties on location restrict their ability to engage...
...Rooster. All through his student years, Baeumer kept chummy with chickens; when he started medical practice in rural Wiedenau, he turned his garden into a chicken yard. He spent all his spare moments there, communing with the inmates, observing their language and customs. Sometimes he incubated a clutch of eggs and kept the chicks isolated so that they accepted him as their mother and apparently thought other humans were just big chickens. He listened carefully while their baby peeps changed to adult chicken language, and found that it came from instinct and never varied appreciably. Roosters raised in isolation from...