Word: pinching
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Holy Cross hammered the three Crimson pitchers for nine hits, including there three double and a 890-foot triple. Andy Ward started, and was taken out for a pinch-better in the fifth; Coach Sheppard wanted to rest his starter for the important Navy game Saturday. Lefthander Joe Bernston worked the fifth and sixth, while Kessler pitched the last two innings...
...Kessler started on the mound for the varsity, and pitched adequately, allowing but one earned run. He was given no batting support, however, and retired for a pinch-hitter in the seventh. Ken Rossano finished the last two frames to get credit for his second triumph...
...George Washington game on Thursday saw 15 Crimson hits, but the big one came off the bat of George Anderson. Pinch hitting in the ninth for Kessler, who followed Bernstein and Ward to the mound, with the score tied, 7 to 7, two men on and one man out, Anderson unloaded the third varsity homer in as many games for the winning runs...
...famous herds of cattle have been depleted by drought. The country's left-of-center, welfare-state laws provide subsidies for both wheat farmers and cattlemen, although the public debt is already $387 million-high for a country of only 2,500,000 people. Workers are feeling the pinch of inflation, with prices nearly 2½ times greater than in 1943. Strikes have been frequent...
What with ancient institutions tottering on all sides and history breathing down everyone's neck like a rozzer bent on making a pinch, one is tempted to state unequivocally that Bertram Wooster, Esq. is one of the few unchanging figures of the times. Stable is the word that comes to mind. Enduring. The old Grecian marble sort of thing. Still, as Jeeves would say, appearances may be deceptive. For after years of presenting to the world an upper lip not necessarily on the stiff side but always as smooth as a baby's whatever-it-is, Wooster...