Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cars had flowed smoothly until mobs of pedestrians threw a crimp into the traffic...
...feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
Last November's Yale game did more than place a clammy hand on the end of the football season. It also put a decided crimp in the Phillips Brooks House blood drive, when an alarmingly high percentage of would-be donors were regretfully turned away from the operating table. Too much alcohol in their veins, the doctors said; and the campaign fell short of its goal. Today another drive begins, and with the perils of a Big Weekend safely past, PBH officers dare to hope that the 200-pint quota will...
...promptly set to raiding the slates of Stassen delegates, pressured others to stay out of the primary, confidently talked of capturing all of Ohio's 53 votes for Taft. But Stassen supporters figured that he was sure to pick up at least ten, enough to put a big crimp in Bob Taft's prestige...
...raising money which had bobbed up, via newspaper advertisement, in several U.S. cities. All of the schemes involved U.S. bonds and the same "money-back-in-ten-years" guarantee, plus the prospects of profits on the loan. But SEC's action in Philadelphia would not necessarily put a crimp in them. Two other money-raisers in New York got around SEC by filing details of their schemes (registering) with the agency. So long as they told all the facts, SEC could do nothing to stop them...