Word: pinching
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...area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself," he says, "to believe a local attorney like me has a national business like this. It's unbelievable...
...Stargell, Centerfielder Al Oliver and the irrepressible Clemente, pushed across two runs of their own in the first inning and another in the third to tie things up. Then, with a runner on third and two outs in the seventh inning, Murtaugh sent in another 21-year-old rookie, Pinch Hitter Milt May, who lined a sharp single to give Kison and the Pirates a 4-3 victory...
...operation" against "miscreants." Tight censorship allows no foreign publications containing stories about the conflict to enter the country. Even so, as more and more soldiers return home badly maimed, and as young officers are brought back in coffins (enlisted men are buried in the East), opposition could mount. The pinch is already being felt economically, and there have been massive layoffs in industries unable to obtain raw materials for lack of foreign exchange...
...Crimson almost conjured up the tying run in the bottom of the ninth with two men out. Kevin Hampe walked on a 3 and 2 pitch as a pinch-hitter, then stole second. Tim Bilodeau followed with a high bounder over the pitcher's mound and miraculously beat the throw to first by diving at the bag from five feet away to put runners on first and third...
Harvard's bid for its first World Series title died altogether, though, when Bill Kelly, pinch-hitting in an attempt to throw the game into extra innings, watched two strikes and then swung at a hard fastball from Rabouin. Needless to say, he missed...