Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with their ballyhooed signing of free-agent Outfielder Dave Winfield, the Orioles were quietly acquiring less expensive but perhaps equally valuable utility players. Manager Earl Weaver, the man of a million statistics and even more stratagems, gleefully analyzed his new acquisitions: "First we got Jim Dwyer, who can both pinch hit and shore up our late-inning outfield defense. He can play first base too, so that gives us options in the infield as well. Then there's José Morales, who batted .303 as a designated hitter with Minnesota last year. He can DH and pinch...
Munsingwear feels the pinch...
...committee used as its guiding principle that the shoe must pinch every service, but not cripple the delivery of those essential to the community," a spokesman for the commission, which was chaired by EASTCO president Alan Steinert Jr. said yesterday...
Training responsibilities have to be shared among the team members, and the best in each event aids the others as best he can. In a pinch, Morrison has taken over all of the coaching duties as well as keeping up his organizational role...
Reagan did pledge that the Pentagon would feel the budget-cutting pinch too. He proposed to close some military bases and pare down a pay raise for civilian employees of the Department of Defense. Even so, military spending next fiscal year would rise $4.3 billion over the $181.5 billion Jimmy Carter proposed, and that is a modest start. In fiscal 1983 the increase would be $20 billion; by fiscal 1986, $63.1 billion. Some of the projects the money would go for are obvious enough: a new manned bomber, an additional nuclear aircraft carrier, faster production of jet fighters. But Pentagon...