Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different Government law-enforcement branches. The first group of twelve men was sent early in 1967 into Buffalo, N.Y. to blitz the firmly entrenched Mafia operation of Stefano Magaddino. Stefano's son Peter, in whose home agents found more than $500,000 in cash as well as a clutch of weapons, has been prosecuted, among others, as a result of their efforts. Similar Strike Forces have now been set up in seven other cities, and so far, 320 indictments have been filed-and 60 convictions obtained-as a result of the teams' efforts. Nixon's organized-crime...
...congressional committee counsel, Ethel would arrive in the morning, attend the hearings, drive home for lunch with the children, return for the afternoon hearings, then go back home and call her friends to say how brilliantly Bobby had performed. Later, when Bobby was Attorney General, she and a clutch of children often showed up on working evenings at the Justice Department with trays of hamburgers, milk and ice cream...
Yale's Neil Wilkof and Tom Warren left town without communicating information about their performances or the well-deserved congratulations. Somewhere along the 26-mile route, Fallows saw Warren clutch his leg in agony and yell, "My God, my God, it's my leg." Warren took to the sidewalk, reclined, and was never seen again...
Linn allowed six hits, but he was extra tough in clutch moments as Harvard stranded ten runners in scoring position. Besides hurling, Linn batted fifth in the Quaker line-up and moved to right field when he needed relief help from Ken Kroell in the eighth...
Sophomore pitcher J. C. Nickens won his seconds game of the week with an outstanding seven-hitter as fielding errors and clutch hitting helped Harvard to a 6-2 victory over Springfield College on Saturday...