Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, a driver trained to use his left foot on the brake is a positive menace in a stick-shift car, where his instinctive reflex will land his foot on the clutch-where it will do worse than no good, since it robs him of even the minor braking action of the engine. Inexperienced drivers taught left-foot braking also sometimes freeze in an emergency on both brake and accelerator (one of the incidental advantages of right-foot braking is that the driver necessarily has to take his right foot off the accelerator...
...Nothing. But absenteeism was not the bill's only problem. Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen last week outlined to G.O.P. Senators a clutch of amendments, including one to make compliance with the public-accommodations section voluntary for a year. Several liberal Senators promptly indicated that they might vote against a diluted bill. Cried Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse: "There cannot be any justification of any compromise in a civil rights bill that gives to the Negroes of this country less than complete deliverance under the Constitution of the U.S. If that is the type of bill that is presented...
Cracks & Leaks. By the time the field reached Cat Cay, 441 miles from Miami, eleven boats were already out of the race. Ragin' Cajun gave up with clutch trouble. Aboard Allied GX, a geyser of steam and water suddenly shot up from the ruptured bilges. The crew watched sadly from a life raft as the $140,000 boat sank in 600 fathoms...
...TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. It movingly depicts the fate of a handful of proud women terrifyingly caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors...
...laps went by, hour on hour, and still the clutch of Cobras held together. Down the straight they roared: lead Cobra in the delicate hands of deft Bob Holbert; behind him, the brilliant Dan Gurney; in the open cockpit behind him, the helmeted head of former World Champion Phil Hill...