Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictator states of Europe are taking over the trade of Latin America, the bitterest trade competitor of the U. S. in Argentina at present is no totalitarian state but a democratic nation of traders, Great Britain. Although overtaken in many Latin American countries by the U. S. and pressed hard in others, in Argentina Britain still holds a handful of trump cards and by last week it became apparent that she is playing them in a manner calculated to take all the tricks...
Despite these hard feelings, U. S. sales to Argentina have cut heavily into Britain's trade and during the first eleven months of 1938 the U. S. managed to ship to Argentina $230,988,648 worth of goods to Britain...
...Catholic pro-Franco minority last week did a workmanlike job of sitting down hard on the U. S. arms embargo on Spain, which many a friend of the Loyalists had hoped to have lifted during the present session of Congress. The "Lift the Embargo" campaign had the support of President Roosevelt's passing reference to the injustice of such measures in his opening message to Congress. But the lifters, badly stage-managed, strained a muscle in their first heave last week...
...encomiums. When he concluded a lengthy explanation of the banking drought by expressing the belief that "there is, as we enter the new year, less cause for pessimism than there has been for some time," an unidentified stockholder rose to pay him tribute. After fumbling around for words, the hard-pressed man finally gushed: "If I were a woman, I'd say you're wonderful...
Mention the idea that a hard-pressed college boy, earning his board or part of it by waiting on table or washing dishes should be obliged to pay an Old Age Insurance Tax, in order to provide him with a theoretical Old Age Pension when he reaches the age of 65, and you are greeted with a wan, incredulous smile suggesting that you have made a creditable effort to perpetrate a rather poor joke. Yet this is exactly what a solemnly paternalistic government at Washington, probably unintentionally it is true, has decreed...