Word: pinching
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Then they made the pinch. Soon other OPA agents swarmed over the lot, arrested five other salesmen, jotted down the license numbers of other black-market autos, knocked the big top off the "circus...
...played hunches and hustle all season. If the mood came over him, he would take out a batter who already had two strikes on him, put in a pinch hitter Says he: "I just get a feeling." He kept his bullpen in a stew: sometimes, against a single batter, he deliberately used one pitcher for a fast ball, another for a curve. For 15 weeks, with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making...
...years." No less than eight Government agencies got busy trying to help the overloaded railroads with priorities for materials for new cars, new steps to speed up "turnarounds" of cars, etc. But enough new cars would be long in coming. ODT's Johnson predicted that the pinch would last till spring...
Already Nassaur has 1) set up Courtley production in Hudnut's Toronto plant, 2) swelled his advertising budget 400%, 3) concocted a new goo for the new market-a shampoo which, in a pinch, can also be used as shaving cream or soap...
Almost everything went wrong at the Hollywood Bowl. Soprano Dorothy Maynor, the guest star, canceled her engagement because her mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...