Word: pinches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Press conferences held by prisoners with their interrogators present should always be taken with at least a pinch of salt. Still, Islamic Jihad's Thabet Mardawi offered some fascinating insights to Haaretz on the battle for Jenin, and the politics and mechanics of suicide bombing...
...Zubaydah's information needs to be taken with a pinch of salt; not all of it has checked out. But U.S. officials have a reason for publicly attributing to him many of their leads, whether they originate with him or not. "It declares to his old friends that he's turned colors and come over to our side," says one. "That means he's toast, and he knows it. He doesn't have any friends back home, so he might as well make some here." The ploy may or may not work, but it seems that the Gitmo interrogations...
...Bears’ Jonathan Stern—who shared Ivy Pitcher of the Year honors with Crockett—had handcuffed the Crimson for most of the game. But with two outs and junior Nick Seminara on second, sophomore pinch-hitter Mickey Kropf connected on a drive to deep centerfield that tied the game and put the winning run on third base...
Working under the close watch of George Wiley, the NWRO’s famous founder, for a summer Stone became a self-described “jack of all trades” as Wiley’s right-hand man, doing “pinch hitting, analysis, research...
With one out in the eighth inning and Harvard down 6-2, senior Andrew Brunswick worked a four-pitch, pinch-hit walk off Herce. Hale’s groundout moved Brunswick to second, and Wallace’s double brought him home...