Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gordon on base Owen drove out a weak single, tore on to second on fielders choice and on a passed ball completed the circuit for a home run. The Crimson players scored two more runs in the sixth; one when K. N. Hill, who was put in as a pinch hitter for Thayer, brought in Bemis and the other when Clark who had advanced to third on the same play stole home. The final tally came in the seventh when Owen was hit and sent to first, made second on Hammond's sacrifice, reached third on F. S. Hill...
...Thompson, K.C.B., formerly head of Scotland Yard, who lectured yesterday at Symphony liall, points out a notable difference in the British and American attitudes toward the law. In England, the "bobby" carries no gun; he needs none, for he is "always right". The crowd will support him in a pinch. It is ingrained in the English that the law, which the "bobby" represents, is right, and must be respected. Here, the "cop" undoubtedly represents the law, but the sympathy is too likely to be with the culprit. Evading the law is often more popular than obeying it. And there...
Ectoplasm has appeared before on the theatrical bill of fare, but the dish now being served at the Wilbur,--ectoplasm taken with a pinch of salt, stirred up with a dash of satire, and blending judiciously with melodrama,--will tempt the most play-weary palate...
...manufactured goods from the valley, especially iron and steel, is a more severe blow to the industrial and political life of Germany. As France continues to strengthen the barrier between Germany's productive district and the rest of, the states, the people will begin to feel the pinch and the Reich will awaken to the fact that the French are in a commanding position. Though Poincare may fail to collect the reparations, he will at least have established French authority. And so, instead of precipitating another war, the policy may actually have prevented one, by nipping the German defiance...
There is at present a considerable protest by manufacturers, particularly in New England, against the existing immigration laws. Mill owners are beginning to feel the pinch caused by a shortage of labor. A Greater Boston manufacturer wrote recently, "Unless there is some relief in the shape of immigration, we will be forced to shut down our plant. . . . It is not a question of wages; the help is not here...