Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of last summer, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., America's biggest conglomerate, surprised investors by agreeing to sell a clutch of household names that it had acquired in recent years. Among them were home builders Levitt & Sons, Avis Inc. and Hamilton Life Insurance. To ITT insiders, however, the decision was no surprise. Chairman Harold Geneen chose to sell because the alternative was a costly antitrust battle with the Justice Department that would have tied up his company in courts for years, and might still have ended in divestiture...
More important than the broken records, however, were the clutch performances by some of the other swimmers. "When you win a meet by only one point, you've got to have a lot of key performances," said Harvard head coach Don Gambril. He cited as proof Tim Neville's win over Rex Hand, Navy's best sprinter, in the 50-free, Dave Brumwell's win in the 200-fly, and Tim Chetin's two thirds in the individual medley and breastroke...
...competition clutch, with four on the floor yeah, She purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar . . . She's my little deuce coupe; you don't know what...
Principal source of Birmingham's smog is a clutch of 23 heavy-industry companies (including U.S. Steel and Republic Steel), whose smokestacks spew out tons of sooty particles each day. Last April, when a similar temperature inversion occurred, most of the companies ignored requests from local health authorities and the EPA to cut back production, and held out until a shift in the weather blew the problem away...
After trading touchdowns, in the second and third quarters, Dartmouth gained a 29-28 lead in the fourth quarter, Jackson came back with two clutch plays, passing to end Mike Jones for 36 yards. A six-yard run set up Paul Kaliades' game winning 34 yard field goal which came in the last 48 seconds in the game...