Word: pinching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plate shambled a tall, stooped figure-"Lefty" O'Doul. An oldtime hero of the Pacific Coast League, in 1932 O'Doul was No. i batsman of the National League, but a 1933 slump had put him on the bench, to be brought forth only in a pinch like this. Twice O'Doul swung and fouled. Third-Baseman Jackson, waiting his turn at bat, called out: "Take it easy, Lefty. You don't need to hit it out of the park. A single will do." O'Doul cracked the next ball into centre field...
...delicacy of the issue is Mr. Mencken's thin contribution. By a series of magnificent obiter dicta he manages to make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this...
...world's record of 1,307 consecutive games played in major league baseball, while the slow-witted, ham-fisted young recruit sat on the Yankee bench. On June 1, 26 days after Scott had finished his run, Manager Miller Huggins sent the recruit into a game to pinch-hit against Washington. He failed. Next day, for no good reason, Huggins put the big boy at first base. That day he got three hits, won the game...
...summer spree, full of noise and good cheer and enthusiasm. Governor Pinchot ordered guardsmen to Fayette County to help keep the peace (TIME, Aug. 7). By last week the strike had closed every Frick mine in the county. Other companies were beginning to feel its pinch. Some mines of great Pittsburgh Coal Co. had to shut down. So did others belonging to Bethlehem Steel. Operators were in a panic. As most of them are Republicans, they felt politically stranded without a friend at Democratic court. They knew their old hard-fisted methods of fighting a strike with armed guards would...
...cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...