Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important are his examples of how race--not racism, exactly--still shapes the professional game: Owners who demand at least a few white players; a good white who commands more pay than a good Black; players who remember the days when Blacks were considered undisciplined and unreliable in the clutch...
...stop him, the fleet-footed Diana has managed to twist and turn for more than five yards a crack, often breaking long runs. If he gets past the initial line of opposition and squirts through to the secondary, watch out. He is devastating in the open field, and his clutch runs last year gave the Elis good position and allowed them to control the ball...
...instead around manufacturing "cells" in which batches of similar parts are turned out by computer-directed machine tools. At International Harvester's Farmall tractor plant in Rock Island, Ill., a group of 69 machine tools and six workers, with support from a four-man maintenance crew, produces tractor clutch housings. Formerly, the job was done by 47 machinists working in three shifts at 32 separate machine tools...
...case of some fairly simple cutting and shaping operations. Comprehensive computerized manufacturing of complex industrial equipment is thus not likely to start becoming economically feasible until late in the decade. Moreover, CAD/CAM equipment itself can break down. After six months of intensive "debugging," International Harvester's clutch housing complex still has not operated without at least some periodic electrical or mechanical interruptions...
When Jackson left the second game after the second inning with a strained calf muscle, Piniella replaced him in the outfield for a time and batted well in the clutch. Lou undercut a three-run homer in a seven-run fourth inning that pretty much put an end to all the talk about Billyball...