Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends to rise to even the most arbitrary occasion, and delivers without breaking the illusion...
...That [the reverse] was our little counter to keep them honest," Allard said. "We just set them up by going to the strong side and then when we went to the weak side to break the flow, we got two clutch runs for first downs...
...Budget. Foremost in this clutch of problems is the fiscal 1984 budget. "We held up the discussions until after Election Day," confessed a White House aide, "so that reporters could not write horror stories about what the President planned to cut." Appropriately, the President's first round of budget discussions was scheduled for Election Day. Many of Reagan's closest advisers privately hope that the President will decide on his own to raise taxes or cut increases in defense spending rather than swallow a 1984 deficit that could top $175 billion. It is not lost on them that...
...Boston College, Boston's athletic outlook has reached collegiate sports, as well. Emphasizing local talent and disdaining high-powered national recruiting, the Eagles have developed spirited, exciting teams with reputations like those of the local pro squads: good except in the clutch, or no good...
Harvard goalie Juliet Lamont kept the stickwomen in the game with some clutch saves, the biggest coming 10 minutes into the second half. Wildcat Co-Captain Joan McWilliams broke away on the right side of the field. As McWilliams drove towards a one-on-one showdown with Lamont, the Crimson netminder came out to cut down McWilliam's angle. The UNH senior drilled the ball straight at Lamont, who made a pad save to preserve the scoreless...