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Word: pinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boys of Spring | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Munsingwear feels the pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girdle Grapple | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Panel Cites $7 Million In Possible Budget Cutbacks | 3/31/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jon A. Gordon, | Title: Gymnasts Struggle On Without Coach | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge to Change: Reagan calls for an end to spendthrift Big Government | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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