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Word: pinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pinch, if low-key pressure fails, Harvard lobbyists "can put out a P.R. campaign that can cost a few thousand dollars," says Ole Anderson, director of the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, an animal rights group...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Is Harvard Just Another Big Landlord? | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

...effects of such insipid politicking have been obvious and immediate. The stock market has fallen more than 50 points since election day, as investors are unsure if the President-elect even has a policy to deal with the deficit. I must pinch myself to believe that throughout 12 months of the campaign, we did not force Bush to enunciate an economic and fiscal policy, or even, apparently, to think very seriously about one. Perhaps he'll find one in a fish belly while he's in Florida this week...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Through a Looking Glass | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...other professional sports, the game itself is attractive. Football offers hard hits, long passes, late-second field goals. Baseball offers overpowering pitchers, chess-like strategy, pinch-hit homeruns. Hockey offers brawls, great saves, breakaway goals...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: NBA Expansion: We Can't Be So Hot Together | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

Kirk Gibson, the Dodgers' pinch hitter deluxe in the Series' opener, was not employed this time, even though Los Angeles was at the bottom of its batting order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGwire's Homer Edges Dodgers, 2-1 | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

...allowed only a one-out single by Marty Barrett in the first inning and a two-out single by Larry Parrish in the eighth. Randy Kutcher, pinch running for Parrish, was picked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jays Blank Sox, 1-0, But Magic No. Shrinks | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

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