Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Problems in the Crimson pack were due mostly to lack of coordination and the absence of both its two usual scrumhalfs. Lee Freeman as pinch hitter did a passable job but excels further back in the scrum...
...Pinch-Hitter Program" progressed, many a woman became almost enthusiastic. Some of the men, in fact, were less confident than their wives; Joe Van Coelen of Belmont, Calif., even refused to let his wife use his plane to learn in, but rented one for her instead. She-close to 70-was able to land within the second hour of her training...
...stood proudly at the plate in his pin-stripe New York Yankee uniform, listening to the roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
...Moondoggie, her beach-bum boy friend, to line up a couple of blind dates for her chums. Quicker than one can say Alitalia the adolescent sextet is scampering down the Spanish Steps, posing for gag snapshots in front of St. Peter's, twisting in the Baths of Caracalla. "Pinch me," says Gidget. Someone does, and she knows she is really, truly in the Eternal City...
...facts are turning up. Example: it costs 50% more, on the average, for a U.S. exporter to ship his goods abroad than for a European or Japanese to bring the same products to this country. Not until President Kennedy's recent warning that this fact has begun to pinch U.S. exports did the Government start to do something about it. Last week, heeding Kennedy's call for "corrective action," both the Commerce Department and the Federal Maritime Commission began putting pressure on shippers to straighten out rates...