Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackal is an outsider, unknown to the French security forces eventually unleashed against him. He begins the assignment in the reading room of the British Museum, boning up on De Gaulle's habits, and ends it-with a clutch of false papers and a hunting rifle disguised as an aluminum crutch-in a room on Paris' Rue de Rennes overlooking a liberation day ceremony...
...museum. There were his cream-colored velour hat, his checkered sports cap, his ivory-handled cane, sent over from London by his psychoanalyst daughter Anna Freud. She could not bear, however, to part with the famed couch. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was on hand for the occasion, with a clutch of city councilors, but Vienna is still almost as cool as it always was to its most illustrious modern son. Of the city's 113 listed psychiatrists, only twelve practice Freud's analysis, and Vienna's Freud Society was founded only a year ago-by Professor Friederich...
...royal budget* while continuing to enjoy "a complex system of tax privileges and exemptions," many never fully disclosed, on her private fortune. "One has to admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought to continue to maintain "the clutch of palaces, the powdered footmen, the racing stables and polo ponies, the fleets of luxury cars, the squadrons of aircraft and helicopters, the yachts, the elaborate apparatus of consumption at its most conspicuous level...
...first game Bill Kelly's clutch pitching helped the Crimson survive a five-hit batting draught. Then in the nightcap, Harvard's hitting attack came alive in the late innings to rebound from a two-run deficit. Lefthander J. C. Nickers threw five innings of shutout ball to earn...
Harvard had the edge in depth in singles as both Tom Loring and Peter Briggs won in straight sets at five and six. Joe Cavanagh at number two was once again invincible in the clutch. After losing a 5-4 tie-breaker in the second set, he held on to beat sophomore Ted Turnblacer...