Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working together." The most stress, he adds, is crossing the picket lines. Bill Kolacek, a supervisor at the Aurora center near Chicago, compares running the picket line to his Army experience in Viet Nam. Driving up to the facility, he says, "I put my foot on the clutch, my left leg starts shaking, and my back tenses up." He feels sorry for the older strikers who were near retirement and the younger ones who were "used to an interesting job and are going to end up pumping gas." Not all will. A recruiter from Saudi Arabia was offering...
Well, dear lady, think again. The well-dressed woman may once have considered a metallic accessory to be on the order of rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Beyond that, anything more than a gold-accent belt or an evening clutch in gold thread was generally regarded as rather tacky. Now, however, the fashion industry has struck a mother lode in a new sort of metallics. The season's liveliest accessories-belts, buckles, totes, handbags, scarves, T shirts, sandals, shoes and hats-are flashing and gleaming with finishes of gold, silver, bronze, copper, pewter and even anthracite. Nor does...
Your article "New Maladies" [June 29] prompts me to report another one. After 30 years of driving a large gas-guzzling automatic-shift car, I switched to a four-cylinder gas saver and developed "manual-transmission knee" from operating the clutch...
...clutch of the nation's largest cities, mass-transit systems-already rumbling toward hell-have never seemed closer to that infernal destination...
...often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to suburbanites worried about a favorite elm or oak. By now, about all they can do is keep the tree as healthy as possible -faithful watering and feeding help -gather up and destroy every clutch of moth eggs in sight, and wait until next year. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Anne Moffat/Ithaca and Sara White/Boston