Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that peaceful change can only come through some economic inconveniences; a pinch in the pocket that everyone will feel will move many to think about real change. Dr. Leila L. Bronner Asseclate Professor Witwatersand University Johannesburg SA Visiting Research Fellow Harvard NELC
...either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World War III.) The Orioles had unloaded their supply of pinch hitters all at once. (If everybody feels they're somebody, you end up with a team on the bench as good as the one on the field...
...Phillies had the luxury of Holland in the bullpen. He had a club-record 25 saves and an earned run average of 2.26 during the regular season. He retired pinch-hitter Dan Ford on a fly to left on the first pitch, ending the Baltimore threat...
Holland, in the ninth, retired the Orioles in order, getting Cal Ripken Jr., Eddie Murray and pinch hitter Gary Roenicke...
Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...