Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angel Mangual, pinch hitting for Oakland A's pitcher Rollie Fingers, drilled a single up the middle to drive in the winning run in a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds...
...ninth, however, with one out, pinch hitter Gonzolo Marquez. Gene Tenance and Don Mincher singled, to secure a 3-2 victory...
Cesar, Geronimo hit a Sacrifice fly off reliever Moose sending pinch runner George Foster to third. The count on Hal McRae, pinch hitting for Clay Carroll, went to one and one when Moose fired a wild pitch allowing Foster to race home...
Robe Showing. William Douglas has no phone at his retreat in Goose-prairie, Wash.; so in a pinch, his secretary calls a neighbor who lives six miles away. When Douglas wants to call, he drives 40 miles to a roadside phone booth outside Yakima, Wash., drops in a dime and gets his office collect. Keeping contact with Thurgood Marshall also has its difficulties. In the Virgin Islands in July, he broke an ankle in a Jeep accident. Last summer he had appendicitis, and two summers ago he got pneumonia. "We have a regular routine here," says his secretary...
...Alarm. The Administration's strategy has been to try to pinch off the drug routes before they reach New York, Miami or the Mexican border, the main U.S. entry points. The effort involves long, Le Carré-style work by dozens of globe-ranging narcotics agents, as well as diplomatic pressure on 57 countries that are concerned with the trade in one way or another. But the effort has been frustrating. Many governments are not particularly receptive to U.S. pleas for cooperation and, as the Cabinet Committee report wryly observes, they are "regularly and skillfully exploited by the illicit...