Word: pinching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Second baseman Larry Barbiaux sent Stoeckel across the plate with a single, but that was all Harvard could muster. Pinch hitter Joe Sciolla flew out to end the game...
...FINAL AWAKENING came when I "snorted" a good sized pinch of heroin. Up to that point, I had, at one time or another, smoked pot, tried LSD, Psylocybin, Mescaline, Dexadrine, Alcohol, and so on ad infinitum. Being head of a drug education group and of reasonable sound mind and body, my motivation was curiousity of a most unmorbid sort--but each new experience left me with the same anti-climax. They were all interesting in one way or another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time...
John T. Dunlop, the Administration's clean-up batter last year, has been sent up to the big leagues. His pinch-hitter, Franklin L. Ford, denied the Union even minimal gains. Dunlop, a master at the art of unseeming accommodation, this year probably would have made at least minor concessions to the Union. But the intransigent Ford, with his senseless references to 'spring rituals,' has refused to toss even the smallest bone to the Union. Although the strike hardly made such concessions necessary, they would seemingly have cost him nothing and helped to defuse the possibility that the Union...
President Bok said yesterday that the School's move is a "sound but unfortunate decision. Given the financial pinch that the School of Public Health is in, I think it was the best thing they could...
ENERGY. Nixon plans a special message early this year on energy policy, and it will have to involve delicate trade-offs among pricing, pollution control and international politics. The energy issue has finally captured the public's attention because the fuel shortage is beginning to pinch. Some Iowa factories have closed because of a scarcity of gas and heating oil, and pipeline companies have been curtailing gas deliveries to utilities and factories in several states. U.S. homes will probably be well heated this winter, but furnaces may have to be turned off in some other plants, stores and offices...