Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the timeout the Blue proceeded to take their time in setting up their best shooter, Switchenko, who responded in clutch form with the winning hoop...
Hines was Harvard's leading scorer with 13 points, and scored two clutch baskets late in the second half. On the first, he fought inside for a rebound and hit the follow to tie the contest...
...undefeated and Ivy title-bound Penn fencing squad came up with big wins in the clutch yesterday as it clipped Harvard's frustrated fencers...
...last week's fund-raising gala at Washington's Kennedy Center. Held to salute the Center's Board Chairman Roger Stevens, 65, the black-tie dinner and show had featured Jacqueline Onassis as chairman and star attraction, Gerald and Betty Ford, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, a clutch of Kennedys and other Washington celebrities. But Sally was unimpressed. "Most of the VIPs looked as if they'd really rather be home in bed," she snipped. As for Jackie: "Usually when you try to smile all the time that way, your teeth get dry, and your lips stick...
This may not be so much Fussell's fault as the social conditions of the times, the strict division between the officers and the Other Ranks, (who did all the fighting), and the officers' godlike clutch on "culture." A colonel, for instance, read a review of Edmund Blunden's poetry in the Times Literary Supplement, and he called Blunden back from the trenches to do light duty at batallion headquarters. But sometimes Fussell gets caught up in that class-determined culture, as when he describes Blunden's "very worst moment" (Fussell's words), an explosion that happened close...