Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oakland got to Seaver, who had 12 strikeouts in eight innings, in the sixth as back-to-back doubles by Sal Bando and Gene Tenace closed the gap to 2-1 Seaver was lifted in the Mets eighth for a pinch hitter, after the A's had tied the score Campanaris singled and stole second. Joe Rudi delivered the game tying single with none out, but Seaver got out of further trouble...
Jesus Alou, pinch hitting for Ray Fosse, got the second hit for the Athletics on a bloop single to open the eighth. Dick Williams then reached into his bag of tricks for pinch runner Allan Lewis, who was sacrificed to second by Mike Andrews, hitting for Dick Green. Following a Campanaris strikeout, Joe Rudi singled to tie the score...
Settling into his new job, Rosovsky already has felt the administrative pinch. "One thing that depresses me about this job," he said, "is feeling like a dentist. Every half hour another person comes in, leaving little time for contemplation...
McDonald's outlets have enough massed buying power - they purchase 1% of all the beef wholesaled in the nation - to line up steady supplies at stable prices in all normal times, and Oak Brook will help out in a pinch. Headquarters executives are currently buying up live steers with "contributions" levied on licensees, who get the meat back in the form of patties. McDonald's chiefs figure that they have corralled enough steers to get the company through the current beef shortage and avoid a price boost when the ceiling comes off retail beef prices this week...
...world, concern about food shortages grows. In Rome last week, Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, called officials of five major farming nations, including the U.S., to an urgent conference Sept. 20 that will consider ways to deal with a threatened global wheat pinch. U.S. agriculture, long regarded as a bottomless cornucopia whose output had to be deliberately held down, has suddenly seemed unable to turn out all the food that Americans and foreigners want...