Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's record of 1,307 consecutive games played in major league baseball, while the slow-witted, ham-fisted young recruit sat on the Yankee bench. On June 1, 26 days after Scott had finished his run, Manager Miller Huggins sent the recruit into a game to pinch-hit against Washington. He failed. Next day, for no good reason, Huggins put the big boy at first base. That day he got three hits, won the game...
...summer spree, full of noise and good cheer and enthusiasm. Governor Pinchot ordered guardsmen to Fayette County to help keep the peace (TIME, Aug. 7). By last week the strike had closed every Frick mine in the county. Other companies were beginning to feel its pinch. Some mines of great Pittsburgh Coal Co. had to shut down. So did others belonging to Bethlehem Steel. Operators were in a panic. As most of them are Republicans, they felt politically stranded without a friend at Democratic court. They knew their old hard-fisted methods of fighting a strike with armed guards would...
...cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...
...Manhattan. The first game lasted 18 innings. Carl Hubbell, pitching for the Giants, allowed six hits, no bases on balls and only one batter to reach third base. James Carleton, pitching for the Cardinals, did almost as well until the 17th inning when he was taken out for a pinch-hitter. With Haines pitching for St. Louis in the 18th, Moore got a base on balls and scored, with two out, on a single by Second Baseman Critz...
...proposed to take his squadron completely around the world, but abandoned that scheme as too pretentious, if not too risky. Even the flight to the U. S. and back, a magnificent military gesture costing upward of $500,000, was not approved by all Italians, who feel acutely the pinch of hard times. At one time the Italian Government even denied that it was contemplated. However, for the past year and a half at Orbetello, and more recently along the route to Chicago, flight preparations have been intense...