Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German civilians, the cold of winter brought the icy clutch of deepening fear...
Retailers hope that the warm autumn weather is to blame. But when cold weather strikes, the fur industry fears that its suspicion may be confirmed: that U.S. women are beginning to clutch their money a little tighter-that the boom is over...
...amazing Browns had done it. They turned 22 hits into twelve runs for four straight wins, while the New Yorkers produced only three runs on 25 hits. Sewell's boys might be seventh in league batting, but they were in a class by themselves when it came to clutch hitting...
...bourgeois counterrevolution. Goons and saboteurs beat up the workers and tried to wreck the plant. But "in the nick of time, like the U.S. cavalry in an oldtime Western film, the common wealth idea . . . storm[ed] the national scene and . . . rescued a civilization from the running clutch of death." Young (35) Author Ardrey 's first novel (his play Thunder Rock has just appeared as a British cinema - TIME, Sept. 25) is crowded with cliches ("I get out the old and battered typewriter") and gilt-edged platitudes ("There are things of beauty in the world of a child that cannot...
...surplus aluminum and magnesium. Under restrictions, they could forge experimental models of postwar products. More important, war contractors whose orders are canceled or have been cut back could resume consumption of these metals for a limited output of civilian goods. In effect, the long-delayed Nelson order is a clutch that would allow the industrial gears to change from war to peace production without stopping the whole machine...