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Reader’s Digest has seen its revenues and stock price drop and has had to stop production of two magazines because of the economic downturn’s pinch on the publishing industry and decreased business from their sweepstakes mailings...
...combination of Kropf and Mann should providce the Crimson with consistency behind the plate. Harvard is hoping that they both stay healthy, since Harvard’s in a bit of a pinch when it comes to a third-string catcher...
Several returning starters, namely Whitton, Williamson, Cooley, Watanabe, and sophomore shortstop Rachel Goldberg, have already stolen more bases than they did all last season. Freshman Ashley Augustine has also added two steals of her own as a pinch runner...
...with two outs in the top of the seventh, Harvard’s bats came alive. Cooley hit a solo home run—her third of the year—to begin the trouncing of the Crusaders. With the bases loaded, sophomore Louisa Canham came in as a pinch hitter. Canham took full advantage of her entrance into the game and ripped a line drive down the right field line. The blast cleared the bases to increase Harvard’s lead...
...helpless act: he throws himself upon your mercy. He's got a half-dozen faces for the ladies. But the one I like, the really cute one [and here J.J.s voice grows flintier], is the quick, dependable chap. Nothing he won't do for you in a pinch - so he says. Mr. Falco, whom I did not invite to sit at this table tonight, is a hungry press agent, and fully up to all the tricks of his very slimy trade. [He pulls out a cigarette and turns to his victim.] Match me, Sidney." Sidney: "Not right this minute...