Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every day the outlanders come streaming in: lean, ambling riggers from Texas and California, husky bulldozer operators, stubble-bearded, pinch-eyed welders from Chicago and Bartlesville, Okla., geologists from "back East," college students out for adventure, and a smattering of whores, highrollers and assorted hangers-on from all over. They come by jets screaming in from Houston and New Orleans, or in mud-covered Winnebago trailers swaying up the Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They...
...Read With a Plan. Don't read in advance, unless it's the professor's book--then you can skip the lectures. In a pinch, book reviews can be even more rewarding than books, and introductions more important than conclusions. Scanning appropriate pages of Langer's Encyclopedia of World History guarantees your spot on the dean's list...
...Army's catcher Dietz touched Driscoll for a home run to open the bottom of the sixth, and the blast ignited the Cadets. A pinch-hit single, a double and a walk, sandwiched around a ground out to Durso at shortstop, loaded the bases...
...senior Crimson righty struck out four in the final three innings and two of the last four batters, including pinch hitter Ron Wilson to end the game. Harvard is now 9-3 up North, 21-3 overall...
...indication that the ninth inning would be a lively one came when Crusader coach Jack Whalen tried to pinch hit his pitcher Rick Jasinski for his center fielder. This brought a storm of protest from Harvard coach Loyal Park who said that the pitcher could only bat in the DH spot. "I don't know the rule," the ump said when he overruled Park's objections, "and neither does he [pointing to his fellow official in the field...