crutch
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That Crutch, for all his bluster, is a softy, is a point the series explicitly makes.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
Michael Owen Jones, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, interrogated the subject in his thoughtful 2014 paper “Dining on Death Row: Last Meals and the Crutch of Ritual.”
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2020
Through participating in a shared creative experience, family members or professional carers can come to see people with dementia in a different light, says Crutch.
From BBC • May 1, 2019
Even more weirdly compelling is “Foot Cast, Person, Crutch and Santa Claus.”
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2010
There was the one possibility that he had come upon the Man with the Crutch and interrupted the other in his work before the envelope had been secured.
From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
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