Word: pinching
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...Pinch-hitting for the ethereal Elliott, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, has taken over the Gov 1 sessions...
...start, the script read true to form: Newhouser's arm lasted only an inning; Greenberg, pinch-hitting, hobbled to the plate and slapped into a rally-ending double play. But other Tigers supplied crushing ad libs...
...really got ahead was blown sky-high. They got the bases loaded with nobody out, and couldn't squeeze across even one run. Eckenroth singled, Carlton walked, and Bucek beat out a bunt to third; but Davis fanned, Forte added his bit by forcing Eckenroth at home, and Pierce, pinch-hitting for Roche, couldn't do much better than the rest by looking at a third strike...
...hopes to meet all needs by simply stepping up fuel oil production, hopes to keep gasoline rationing at the present level. If this fails, then PAW may have to change refining procedures, i.e., make fuel oil & kerosene at the expense of civilian gas, once more pinch the motorist...
With that war's unprecedented mobilization of national resources to offset blockade, governments learned new economic tricks and developed new appetites for control "in the national interest." Under the pinch of depression in the 1930s. governments manipulated their currencies to shape foreign trade. Counter-manipulation led to government control of imports & exports, and then to still more currency manipulation...