Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laotian economy. The black-market rate of the local currency, the kip, is soaring toward twice the legal rate; the price of rice has doubled; the price of fish, vegetables and oils has jumped even higher. These were the facts that sent Phoumi, Premier Boun Oum and a clutch of other top officials to Bangkok in a desperate search for help from Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat...
True, the Sox committed two errors yesterday, but the fielders had it in the clutch, and, as is popularly stated, if you haven't got it there, you haven't got it. Schilling, for instance, pulled a rock in the middle innings, but came up with a great stab and throw on Willie Tasby in the tense ninth frame...
Crimson right-hander Al Yarbro, on the other hand, held the Terriers to five hits, walking only five and striking out eight. He lost his control briefly in the seventh inning, but was strong in the clutch and had the losers gaping at his curve...
Harvard showed its clutch capabilities in the sixth and seventh when the team scored three and two tallies respectively...
...rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...