Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenants reacted to all this in the patternless fashion of men making the last clutch at the lifeboat. Some cried that the whole thing was a huge bluff-an apartment owner must prove he is losing money before getting OPA permission to evict a paying tenant. Others argued that no law can keep a man in business if he wants to quit...
While the war was still on, opponents feared that peacetime conscription might be rushed through Congress while the nation was in a mood to clutch at any military straw. Now a new possibility appeared: would the nation reject the idea by default, without ever agreeing that it was either good or bad? At week's end an Associated Press poll of Senators showed 25 in favor of the plan, 19 opposed, 40 undecided and in no hurry to make up their minds...
...scientists objected to the basic purpose of the May-Johnson bill. Virtually all of them agreed that atomic energy was a frightful force which might, in improper hands, destroy the human race. But they hoped that Congress would be careful. Said one: "Scientific research is like a porcelain egg. Clutch it too tightly, it shatters - and you have nothing...
Combined Operations. In Pueblo, Colo., police spotted a stolen car, found the driver was 1 ) a small boy at the wheel, 2) another small boy squatting on the floor operating the clutch and accelerator...
Last week, more than 150 years later, the ivy-covered Davie Poplar still stood on the campus at Chapel Hill as a clutch of topflight U.S. educators (among them 14 college presidents, including Harvard's James Bryant Conant) gathered to hold the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities and to help the University of North Carolina celebrate its 150th birthday. (North Carolina's party had been in progress since 1939: celebrating first the 150th anniversary of its charter grant, then of its cornerstone laying, etc.) Proud old University of Georgia says it got its charter first...