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Word: clutching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were dream works, not in the pressagent's sense of the word, but in Jung's. Snow White's flight through a forest that seemed to come alive and clutch at her; the vision of the creation of the world in Fantasia; Pinocchio's search for his father, taking him through the grotesque amusement park on the island of lost boys and into the belly of a whale-these sequences strummed psychic chords that live-action comedies like The Barefoot Executive (1971) do not aspire to touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Films: No Longer for the Jung at Heart | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...Richard Nixon who collected a prize clutch of young lawyers, reared in the basic American values, schooled in the intricacies and subtleties of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Portrait of a Pitiful Giant? | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Brayton settled down to allow only two more hits after the first, while striking out six. It was up to the batters to win the game and it was Smith who came through in the clutch. With the bases loaded in the eighth on Sciolla's third hit and a pair of walks to Stoeckel and Leigh Hogan, Smith rapped a three and two pitch into center for the winning two runs...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Batmen Head for Omaha, World Series | 5/30/1973 | See Source »

...offense has come through in the big games as well as evidenced by the fact that three of the top four sluggers in the Eastern League--Kevin Hampe. Ed Durso and Jimmy Stoeckel--play for the Crimson. Aggressive base running and clutch hits have won a lot of close games...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 5/17/1973 | See Source »

...took Harvard until the fourth inning to work its magic, as Northeastern began its traditional "big GBL game with Harvard" clutch. Harvard sent 11 men to bat and came up with the six runs needed to curb the Huskies...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Whips Northeastern, 9-5 | 5/9/1973 | See Source »

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