Word: clutched
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till-now look lean forward expectantly. Dumpy ladies in basic black sit corset-upright and clutch stout, thick purses; the men from Seventh Avenue flick at their silver-white ties, exchanging grunted comments. The babble quickly hushes as the first model appears, and upon each face falls a stolid mask of calculated indifference, for any flicker will betray the spectator's interest to watching competitors...
...clutch of "firsts" emerged from a hotly contested by-election in the London dormitory of North Lewisham last week. It was the first seat to be won by Labor from the Tories in a by-election since 1939, the first seat to be lost in a by-election by a government since the war, and the first (and somewhat inauspicious) test of the popularity of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's six-week-old Conservative government...
...first game with the Big Red, in mid-December, the varsity eked out a 45-44 decision in the last minute of play, as forward Dick Woolston treated his home town rooters to a fine last minute clutch performance...
...fairness it must be said that a series of bad breaks for Princeton which kept stars Rod Zwirner and Dick Knorr out of action helped the Crimson almost as much as several unexpected clutch performances. With Zwirner out, the varsity took the first three places in the two mile, while in Knorr's event, the weight, John DuMoulin and Pete Harpel took first and second...
...Clutch, Lean, Absorb. So Gene Fullmer folded his arms in front of him to ward off uppercuts, and waded in. Robby clutched, leaned and absorbed an awful banging around his ears and his midsection. Once or twice he shook loose and threw the swift combinations that had won him back his title for the third time after an unhappy retirement to nightclub hoofing. Fullmer blinked and kept coming...