Word: pinching
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...wringing games full of melodramatic feats of hitting, fielding and pitching. It produced two blown-in-the-bottle heroes: Dodger Centerfielder Duke Snider, who hit four home runs in the first six games, and Yankee First Baseman Johnny Mize, the oldest (39) player on the field, who delivered a pinch-hit homer, muscled into the regular lineup, and golfed two more into the stands on successive days. The record for home runs in a World Series was broken. Some of the circus catches by the Dodgers' outfielders were so incredible that the stalwarts who had done the deeds gaped...
...gettingest he-men in contemporary writing-a Winsor version of Lanny Budd. Miles Morgan's eyes were "green, speckled with bronze." He had "fieriness . . . gaiety and a sense of poetry in everything he did"-which included reaching under Heroine Amoret's sweater and giving her a sharp pinch. But Miles is at his best when he reaches behind the Iron Curtain and does his pinching there. "He got behind ... for a few days and, after many dangerous escapades, had got out again and written his articles, which were considered to be the most important contributions to international understanding...
...Economic pinch was the explanation given; yet complacency too was behind the slowdowns. Matt Ridgway tried last week to counter this feeling with a soldier's assessment: "There is no reliable evidence known to me . . . [that] the potential threat of armed aggression . . . has in any way abated." Warned the London Observer: "Everybody is now smugly persuading himself that the danger of war has receded and that it is therefore possible to go to sleep again. There will be a harsh awakening...
Dean of U.S. political columnists for two decades, Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune was a durable fixture, weathering all upheavals. Austere, pink-faced in high Hooveresque collar and pinch-nose glasses, he looked as staunchly conservative as his columns sounded. Since Sullivan had won his first fame as a muckraking, trust-walloping liberal, friends sometimes chided him for changing his views. "I haven't changed," Sullivan would reply with gentle dignity. "The world changed...
...hard blow for McCarthy. All of his big holdings, including the Shamrock Hotel, are mortgaged to the hilt and currently out of his control. He still has a radio station, a chain of neighborhood newspapers and other odds & ends. Despite the pinch on his purse, McCarthy still lives like one of the Big Rich in his big house, still throws big parties and flits around the countryside in his private plane...