Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large part from his wide experience in studying people, politics and governments in the U.S. and abroad. He has observed and analyzed elections for the U.S. Government, and, in his capacity as the director of the Elections Research Center of the privately operated Governmental Affairs Institute, in a clutch of other countries, including Russia, Israel and the Dominican Republic. He has served as a senior consultant to the Lou Harris Poll (1959-61), is now chairman of the Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Immigration, a senior research consultant to the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, and wheelhorse...
...illusions that the palliatives, such as garbage cleanups and street cleaning, will make a vast permanent difference, but he senses that they give residents hope and spirit. The slums, in turn, usually respond with electric excitement whenever he appears. Older men and women hang out of their windows, children clutch at his hand, and teen-agers-usually the troublemakers-tousle his hair, heckle him good-naturedly, challenge him to a ball game...
Elston Howard, for so many years a clutch hitter of the New York Yankees, proved a Yankee in Red Sox garments last night by lining a bases-loaded single to left in the ninth-inning to defeat the Washington Senators...
...Tang dynasty's master detective is looking for-is a fellow named Lew, the Imperial censor and pivotal power in the palace intrigues of the capital. Lew soon turns up dead, murdered by a delayed-action poison. The judge, of course, finds his culprit after dealing with a clutch of lively characters: the blind and beautiful Lan-lee, who collects crickets; Zumurrud, a half-caste belly dancer; Mansur, the arrogant, sybaritic leader of Canton's Arab community...
When you look at their hitting, the Sox appear invincible. They have four of the top seven hitters in the league--Yastrzemski, Scott, Petrocelli, and everybody's darling, Tony Conigliaro--and the rest of the lineup has been coming through with the clutch hits when they are needed...