Word: clutching
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...memories of her play in the clutch are still fresh: her game-tying assist in the 1999 ECAC final, her lead-off goal in the 1999 National final, and her scorching slapshot from the blueline in last year's fatal loss to Dartmouth that would have saved Harvard's season had it not been stolen out of the air by Amy Ferguson's high glove...
...pessimist, I'm getting ready for an atavistic, pre-petroleum winter. I stand in the yard, knee deep in bright orange maple leaves, and study the grain of the firewood, lazily choosing the straight grains first, the ones without knots or ropy torques that will clutch the blade and hold it, stuck like Excalibur. Splitting wood is a crude, rustic version of diamond cutting. Read the grain right, strike it there, and the wood bifurcates (chunk!) with algebraic cleanness...
...strength of Rose's clutch pocket passing, the Crimson was able to knock off the Tigers and move into a tie for first place in the Ivy League...
...came through with the biggest clutch effort of the season. Not only did she break up every serve into the box and stop every routine strike, she reached the shots that appeared to be unreachable...
Diplomats involved with Arafat have a fistful of theories to explain his Camp David decision. He remains an unreconstructed revolutionary who cannot bring himself to sign a paper saying "It's over." He is a deer caught in the headlights, who gets hysterical and indecisive in the clutch, as earlier negotiations have sometimes shown. More practically, he realized how cut off from the peace process many Palestinians had grown, holding it in horror or contempt or deepest skepticism. Or Arafat may simply have arrived at a chilling truth that day: that Palestinians and Israelis can never reconcile their competing claims...