Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colorado is also feeling the pinch of oversell. Through deliberate policy, Boulder has preserved the towering "flatiron" slabs to the west that give the city its name, but in all other directions it is bubbling over. Members of a Zero Population Growth chapter in Boulder, which once gloried in the title "Nicest Small Town in the U.S.," recently proposed a charter amendment that would set a ceiling of 100,000 on the population (current pop. 72,000). Though the amendment was voted down, concern is spreading. Denver now has more cars per capita than Los Angeles, and many Denverites...
...product, the service reserves the right to pass on each ad. The arrangement enables the service to use commercial ads to spread its prime message-the public must protect U.S. woodlands threatened by fire and commercial timber demands -while allowing companies to leaven their sales pitches with a pinch of altruism...
Harvard's starting pitcher Roz Brayton had been removed in the seventh inning for a pinch hitter, and Norm Walsh got credit for the victory with two scoreless innings of relief. Cornell got a lead-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning, but Walsh struck out the next batter. A double play ended the game...
After that Brayton allowed only one runner to get past first base. The junior lefthander gave up two singles in the next five innings and had retired seven men in a row when Art Serrano pinch-hit for him in the eight inning...
Mackey, another sophomore, has been Harvard's first pinch hitter all season, but yesterday's triple was his first extra base hit of the season. "When you're a pinch hitter you don't have time to study the pitcher, so I was swinging at the first good pitch Dougherty gave me. It was a fastball, and I guess there was a lot of room behind the rightfielder," Mackey said...