Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough ideals in which today's college youth can have faith. By this time the meaningfulness of Sania Claus has waned, and Motherhood is better left unmentioned. But for Harvard football fans, there are always one certainty in an age of unbelief: Bill Grana would come through in the clutch...
...Every Elbow. If the Russians were in evidence before, their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
...country." Kennedy also presided over the Rose Garden presentation of a Distinguished Service Medal to recently retired Air Force General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., who led the first B-29 bomber raid on Tokyo during World War II. Just before the affair began, Kennedy spotted a clutch of U.S. Senators in the crowd. He introduced a couple of Democrats by their last names, suddenly saw Republican Barry Goldwater and yelled, "Barry...
...more important than the ridiculous cap was Kefauver's decision to shake at least 500 hands a day during that campaign. It became the Keefs patented technique, worked so well that such less folksy types as Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy later found themselves forced to clutch hundreds of sweaty hands in their efforts to outdo...
...conveyor belt creeps over each head, pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads an hour -five times more than the nimblest human headsman. Davis engineers are already at work building a pickup machine to follow the cutter...