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Word: pinching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruled ineligible to play by the Ivy League for signing a pro football contract. In the meantime, however, sophomore Fran Cronin will play the bag for Park's 16-6 squad. Cronin has been filling in at left and right field this season, and has been used as a pinch-runner on several occasions...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: More 'Hot Corner' Blues; Thomas is Injured | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

Trailing, 3-2, with one gone in the bottom of the tenth, Mackey again came through, this time with a double to right, setting up another chance for the frustrated Crimson. But the Hammer drove the final nails into the coffin, striking out Don Driscoll and pinch hitter John Friar...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Last-Inning Rally Gives Crimson Nine 6-5 Win Over Cornell for Twinbill Split | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...staated a rally of sorts by drawing a walk off Koontz. He was followed to the plate by Ed Durso, whose hard shot caused Army third baseman Augie Fucci to bobble the ball and Durso beat the throw to first. Meanwhile Mike O'Malley, who was sent in to pinch run for Williams, scampered to third...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Army Nine Tips Crimson, 4-3 | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...team returned from the South last weekend with an 8-3 record and a couple of injuries, including a hamstring pull to Dave St. Pierre that kept him out of the game. The Saint did get in one trip to the plate to pinch hit. Scott Adzick and Fran Cronin filled in for him in right field...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Destroys B.C. | 4/9/1974 | See Source »

...Arab oil embargo that escalated the U.S. energy shortage from a pinch to a crisis-and at the end of last week the Arabs seemed to be on the verge of turning it back into a pinch. Over the weekend, Arab oil ministers began serious discussions of the possibility of lifting the five-month-old ban on oil sales to the U.S. Washington officials privately expressed high hopes that they would also agree to pump oil again at the rates reached before the Arab-Israeli war broke out last October (production has since been cut 15% below that level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Results of a Lifted Embargo | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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