Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks to six Stacey Moran goals and clutch goaltending by Amy Sandler, Harvard broke open a close game in the second half...
Defensively, Harvard was sharp. In the pitching category (read Harvard hurler Lora Rowning), the Crimson was stingy. In the hitting department, Harvard was clutch...
...Decareau earned himself rave reviews and perhaps a starting job with clutch hitting and startling defensive work. Batting in the ninth slot, Decareau surprised the beleagured Brown bomb victims with a base-clearing double, capping off a seven-run inning. His encore was a towering Sunday-afternoon solo shot to left...
...evoked adolescence for almost any reader. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, a sequel that takes White into young manhood, is at once clumsier and much more ambitious. At times as pretentious as the title, derived from Kafka, it trots out a succession of irritatingly self-indulgent characters and a clutch of cliches about the 1950s, from the bohemian belle to the poet turned adman. Yet White can always save a wearying passage with some apercu about himself or some chillingly uninflected glimpse of cruelty. And if his protracted tale about coming out seems dated, that merely reflects White's master...
...maneuver 61 ft. of tractor-trailer into a parking space that doesn't look large enough for two Corvettes. Like most novice truck drivers, she is confronted by too many tasks demanding simultaneous attention: eyeballing six side-view mirrors, working a gargantuan steering wheel and a muscle-wearying clutch pedal, and monitoring an instrument panel befitting a 727. Goodrum eases the rig back until . . . kerplunk, she mashes into a barricade of tires...