Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With one down in the last of the seventh, pinch-hitter Robert (Tie) Cobb leaped high in the air to stroke the 0 and 2 pitch out of the premises with one mate aboard...
...funny," the late Gertrude Stein wrote, "you have to take everything in the kitchen and put it on the floor." Just about everything from the U.S.'s historical kitchen was on the stage last week at Columbia University; whatever was missing (such as a pinch of salt) could easily be added by the listener. The occasion was the first performance of Gertrude Stein's last finished work, a pleasant and unpretentious little opera, The Mother...
...portable cabinet for infants' bottles, nipples, etc.; it can also be used, in a pinch, as a utility camp stove...
...best defensive maneuver of the day cost Harvard a possible trying run in the tenth. Jack Wallace opened the inning with a pinch-hit single to right, and with Jack Forte at the plate in an obvious sacrifice situation, Bill Gibson, Terrier catcher, called for a pitchout and picked Wallace off first with a fine throw to second-baseman Falloni...
...foul line, stole third base, and tallied on Espanet's fly to Walt Coulson. The Varsity, which had all kinds of trouble with Snow's slow, left-handed offerings, tied the count in the seventh on singles by Bill Barron, Bill Hamlen, and Lenny Lunder, the last named a pinch hitter for John Coppinger...