Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also had a clutch of new songs that seemed fresher and more sophisticated than '50s-vintage Lehrer. In the Dominican Republic, he cracked, Johnson landed the marines "faster than you can knock down Sonny Liston." Lehrer also pinked the plunking protestniks whose St. Joan is Baez. "We are the folk song army," he chirps. "Every one of us care ... It sounds more ethnic if it ain't in good English...
...Tight Clutch. Songbe (literally "Little River") was defended by a force of 1,000 Vietnamese Rangers, militiamen and U.S. Special Force advisers. Two days before the assault, the Rangers captured a pair of deserters who reported that a strong Communist force numbering nearly 2,500 men had moved into the area and was preparing an attack. Though the Songbe garrison intensified its guard, it wasn't enough. In the dark beyond midnight, while the sky intermittently flared with lightning, the Reds attacked...
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Theoretically, it was a thrill-packed, down-to-the-wire contest, with the Crimson's Tom Bilodeau breaking up a 9-9 tie with a clutch single in the bottom of the ninth. But the few faithful fans who stuck it out for the full three-and-a-half hours were too weary, too jaded, to be thrilled at Harvard's victory. One of them did manage a tight, ironic smile...
...Norman's chest. Maybe it is only a stockpile of frustration--the frustration of an ego that grows hungrier with every feeding, of a heterosexual in an era of pan-sexuality; frustration with language too meager to ciutch at ideas his mind is shaping, with mind too meager to clutch at ideas he'd like to shape, with creative ambitions that far exceed what greatness he can hope to claim, with material that will not yield its secrets, like rocky soil intractable to a battered plough...