Word: pinched
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...manager's job is pretty simple. He picks the lineup, makes pitching changes, inserts pinch-hitters. He usually has some sort of influence on his team's attitude...
...threaten to grab my towel. In class, one of them would always attempt to sit behind me. If successful, he would begin the explicit descriptions in a whisper, and when the teacher had his head turned, begin to rub my back. In the halls they would attempt to pinch me where bosses have been pinching secretaries for ages...
...companies are feeling the pinch of hard times and are cutting down on campus recruiting. A Michigan State University survey on recruiting trends recently reported that job openings for college graduates have dipped 10% in the 1990-91 academic year after dropping 13% the year before,adding up to the largest decline since the 1982-83 school year. Result: a flood of rejection letters. "You never think about what you'll do after college, and then we find there are no jobs for us," says Virginia Kwong, a senior at the University of California at Irvine. "Everyone is going through...
Dartmouth's Jamie Boswell drew a leadoff walk in the fifth which came back to haunt Johnston when left fielder Brendan Mahoney blasted a chin-high offering that scored pinch-runner John Tippett, and landed Mahoney on third. After center fielder Joe Tosone's fly to right failed to score Mahoney from third, McKennitt got the job done with his double...
Other Cambridge banks are feeling the pinch as well. William F. McGilzreay, senior vice-president and treasurer of the East Cambridge Savings Bank, noted that while the national recession did not hit full-force until the end of 1990, New England has been in the economic duldrums for well over a year...