Word: pinching
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Three years ago Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, took a vacation. To pinch hit for Maestro Koussevitzky the orchestra's board of directors picked an obscure, lean, bald-headed Greek named Dimitri Mitropoulos. Boston's Brahmins, who thought all Greeks ran lunch wagons, had never heard of Conductor Mitropoulos. At the way he bounded to his place on the stage and went into action, they turned pale with alarm...
...packaged in tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp and the broken capsule is reduced to a harmless pinch of powder...
...Washington's Homer Bone, North Dakota's Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, Missouri's Bennett Clark, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. "To keep democracy alive, and for other purposes," these gentlemen and 46 cosigners last week outdid themselves by sponsoring a war-tax measure written by little, pinch-faced Senator Bone...
Brown said a "duplicate has been pinch-hitting satisfactorily," and continued, "but please convey to the Harvard CRIMSON O.G.P.U., alias Cambridge W.C.T.U., our desire to have original returned for framing. Undecided whether to report case to La Follette Civil Liberties Committee or Dies Committee for Un-American Activities, but suspect that suspicious color of your sheet will imperil you most with latter group...
...heavy favorite over the visiting Feslermen. Gus Broberg and Captain Moose Dudis are the two big arrows in the Indian attack, and as yet no team has been able to bottle them both up for one evening. Yale clamped down on Broberg, but Dudis came through in the pinch...