Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 29, leader of Libya's revolutionary government, is a compulsive orator who occasionally stumbles over his own rhetoric. He did so again last week before a clutch of visiting Arab notables and a crowd of 10,000 attending a celebration marking the second anniversary of Libya's takeover of the former U.S. Wheelus Air Force Base outside Tripoli. Gaddafi scored the U.S. for racism and imperialism but thundered most harshly at Britain "because Britain handed Palestine over to the Jews and handed the Gulf islands to Iran"-a reference to three small islands...
...away, you're all too young for me, and you don't let me get on with my business," said Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 66, to a clutch of newswomen in Teheran, as he arrived for some oil talks with the Shah. But Jacqueline Onassis, 42, doing her sightseeing and shopping thing, answered without hesitation when a woman reporter asked her if she is the same sort of person today as when she was married to President Kennedy. "I am today what I was yesterday and, with luck, will be tomorrow," she replied. "I am a woman...
...outfielder. The Red Sox got his whole family out of Cuba, and Roman, under pressure, hit in the .100's, but did come through with some clutch hits...
...season long Crimson coach Loyal Park and his players have been talking about the Harvard baseball team's ability to come through in clutch situations, and the point was proved dramatically in yesterday's EIBL play-off game against Cornell at Princeton. After being held to just two hits in eight innings, the Crimson rallied for two runs with two out in the top of the ninth to beat...
...consistently accurate shot and the highest scorer on either team. Jerry West never did shoot with his usual accuracy, but he was the most active playmaker in the series, with 44 assists. Harold ("Happy") Hairston outrebounded everybody but Wilt, and Jim McMillian came through with clutch baskets that devastated the Knicks in the fourth game's overtime period...