Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply supercautious or just plain ornery, U.S. primary voters continue to dangle the presidential nominations tantalizingly beyond the reach of all contenders. A victor's smile and glowing predictions seem only to ensure a comeuppance seven days later. As the primary trail nears an apparently inconclusive end, a clutch of uncommitted delegates to both Democratic and Republican Conventions has been dealt a hot-and potentially decisive-hand. They may well determine the 1976 nominees...
...keys are responding," he explains as he walks through the payroll division. It is past 5 p.m. now and the desks and offices on the third floor are empty, while Brown-Beasley, a square and compact man with lank hair and a clipped, Anglicized voice, struts cheerfully over the clutch of wires that is the insulated umbilical for the machine. "Many nights I've slept here by these machines," he says...
Senior Jim Levy led the upset with victories in singles and doubles (paired with Gary Reiner) competition, while Kevin Shaw, Todd Lundy and Danny Waldman all won clutch singles matches...
Senior Bobby Thompson carded a 79 while playing number two to make him Harvard's medalist. Thompson's clutch holes were the seventh and the par three 160-yard seventeenth. On the seventh, a par four, he split the narrow fairway with a 4-wood off the tee and gouged a wedge that skipped up against the flagstick. He bladed an eight iron for his second ringer of the day but missed the birdie putt...
...Celtics had tied the game with seven seconds left when center Dave Cowens tipped in his own missed shot. They got one last opportunity after Smith's clutch shot gave the lead back to Buffalo, but Don Nelson's last-second baseline jump shot was blocked by forward John Shumate...