Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leverett then initiated a frantic press, but Runyan and Luckner came through with clutch ball handling and key foul shots to give the 'Cliffe a 45-38 victory...
Clarkson had combined opportunism with some poor Harvard defense to come back from a 3-2 second-period deficit, but it was helpless against Corkery's clutch goal, a typical flying rush down the right wing finished off by a no-angle bullet to the far corner of the Clarkson cage...
...been under serious consideration for months, and White House aides have been floating the idea in what amounts to a test-marketing program among Congressmen and state and local officials. The possibility that a form of VAT will be imposed at some future date has raised a clutch of fundamental questions about the whole creaking tax system...
Another lad begins to laugh, but the laugh quickly plummets into uncontrollable hysteria; he smashes a small Christmas tree to the floor and slams his hand against a windowpane. Three other tiny boys clutch at Poulin's legs, shrieking, and try to bring him down. After an hour and a half Poulin calmly dismisses the troop; the boys are taken back to other classrooms by school aides. "This was nothing," he sighs. "You should see the action when I take the boys on trips. You go into the woods and every time you go hunting...
Besides Leonard, a clutch of film makers are complaining about Aubrey's cutting-room tactics-and in some cases going to court-in what amounts to the biggest uprising against a major studio that Hollywood veterans can recall. Items...