Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HANOVER, N.H.--Clutch foul shooting by Dartmouth thwarted a last-ditch Harvard comeback as the Big Green held on to defeat the Crimson cagers, 77-74, here in Thompson Arena last night before a sparse gathering...
...looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch overhaul and eat their fill. The place has 24 computerized fueling stations that can pump 3 million gal. of gas a month...
...Nicaragua, Spanish Missionary Gaspar Garcia Laviana sat inspecting a clutch of automatic rifles last October and told a visitor why he had become a firearms expert with the guerrillas who are fighting the Somoza dynasty: "I tried to save the situation in a Christian manner, in the pacifist sense of social promotion, but I realized that all this was a big trick." Two months later, the Nicaraguan National Guard announced that Garcia had been slain in combat...
...Crimson refused to fold in the face of adversity, however. Freshman Dave Coatsworth hit a clutch 18-ft. jumper and the triumph was clinched when Cornell's Mike Davis, who led all scorers with 24 points, fouled out with 2:10 to go in the contest...
...shorthanded tally by Bobby Schmautz less than two minutes later closed the gap to one, but clutch goaltending by Glenn "Chico" Resch frustrated the Bruins the rest of the game. New York's Garry Howatt sealed the victory with an open-net goal...