Word: pinching
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...print, never gives or gets a byline. Often City News merely supplements what a newspaper's own man gathers by himself. Without it, however, each paper would have to hire 12 or 15 extra legmen, could never send large staffs out of town on big stories. In a pinch, a Manhattan editor could get out a presentable paper with only City News and a couple of good rewrite...
...lusty young chimney. The janitor immediately tackled the problem by raising the logs up nearer the flue, but the smoke would take no encouragement, preferring to hang like a cloud over the Common Room table. He then blocked up the top part of the fireplace, trying to pinch the vapors into submission to Newton's law of Gravity to the Moon. But the smoke dived underneath the fires and came screeching up into his eyes...
...wainscote. The men standing about the table by the fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...
...insipid crooner who confesses he is a coward. If a splinter pierces the delicate epithelium on his finger, or if the sun darkens his pure white skin, he has conniptions. Emasculated as he appears on the surface, he faces death with remarkable nonchalance; he is there in the pinch. Maybe this characterization conveys something mystical and beautiful to you. If it does, be sure not to miss this "dynamic movie in which the gangster is depicted as a man not to be despised, quite a noble creature at heart; and crooners are portrayed as they really are, just overgrown children...
...game was not yet out of danger. In their last half, Washington filled the bases with one out and Pinch-hitter Cliff Bolton went to bat. Out from the Giants' bench raced Charley Dressen. a substitute third baseman who had not had his hands on the ball throughout the series. He waylaid Manager Terry. "Play back. Bill," he begged. "I know this guy Bolton from the minors. He hits hard but he's the slowest man in the league. Play him for a double play!" Astonished, Terry obeyed, ordered his infielders back. True to Dressen's word...