Word: pinching
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...Pinch. Raw-material costs are rising. Last week the nation's railroads asked for a 7% rise in freight rates. And in the area of wages, where the Administration has yielded with the least reluctance, the seventh postwar round is already in the making. The C.I.O. steelworkers were talking about pay increases and benefits up to 15^ and 20^ an hour...
...come to the biggest difference between the New York teams. Mueller, whose ability to splash singles into holes had earned him the nickname of "Mandrake the Magician," was replaced by a third-baseman, a pitcher-outfielder-failure, and two pinch-hitters. These substitutes made two hits in twenty tries and three errors in ten tries...
Stengel has the stuff, to be sure--an unlimited supply of pinch-hitters, pinch-runners, defensive replacements, and relief pitchers. He certainly knows how to use them
Random Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...
...same principal applies to other physical burdens of the H.A.A. Judgment demands that despite whatever useful purposes certain items in the plant might have, the H.A.A. would do well to function without them, just for the sake of economy. But items like the Weld Boathouse, while expendable in a pinch, are tough...