Word: pinching
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...elegant and utile implement, the toothpick, passes from the scene in an ever-widening social circle. The massive, rounded hardwood utensil with which modern hostesses and bartenders spear canapes and Martini olives was never intended to explore dental apertures, although it might serve for a murder weapon in a pinch. Let Mr. Wenner, the perfectionist, find a modern name for this modern thing. But I warn him that "skewerette" is barred...
...discovered that Senator Joseph McCarthy needed still more patching, and ordered an operation for diaphragmatic hernia. After successful surgery, McCarthy was told that the original ban on his politicking would be extended from six weeks to at least two months. Among those who agreed to lend their voices and pinch-hit in his campaign for reelection: Arthur Bliss Lane, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who will make an anti-Communist speech...
...some companies which were hard hit last year by the pinch in metals and the switch to arms work were doing better with the freeing of materials. Studebaker, for example, boosted earnings 47% to $3,900,000. The booming oil companies-which have increased earnings almost without a stop for years-were now having their ups & downs. Phillips Petroleum, Standard Oil (N.J.), and Atlantic Refining were up; Shell, hit by a strike at its Houston refinery, reported a half-year net of $19 million, down from $23 million...
...size of the royal budget, even after all the explanations, shocked Britons. Two Socialists, characteristically pinch-penny with non-Socialist expenditures, proposed to slice the Queen's personal allowance almost in two, and to knock $84,000 off the Duke of Edinburgh's funds...
...ninth, with one out and two to go, Chicago Manager Phil Cavarretta came up as a pinch hitter. He blasted a long ball into the rightfield stands, and the crowd sighed in relief as it went foul. Cavarretta went out on an easy fly to centerfield. The final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching...