Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said to myself, remembering a zealously studied map. A surge of brisk, chill air cooled our faces. Light twinkled and beamed all around, as if in general welcome. People and autos and streetcars passed like noisy phantoms. So unreal and theatrical did it all seem that I wanted to pinch myself, but at that moment, with a word, my friend plunged into the midst of the props and characters, and I followed perforce...
Roughly, the fourth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich cuts across the territory of Abd-el-Krim,* from Alhucemas on the Mediterranean to Kifane on the western war frontier. Roughly the Spanish and the French decided last week to pinch together their forces along this meridian; pinched and pinched until their armies stood but 40 miles apart, with Ajdir, the capital of Abd-el-Krim between them...
...advanced up the heights for about a mile and a third; took Morro Viejo (400 ft. high), Malmussi (500 ft.) and Cuervas de Xauen (1,800 ft.). The French made a sudden assault upon the heights of Kifane, captured them, and pushed their line several miles beyond. Then the pinch subsided. There were too many mountains in the jaws of the pincers, for one thing...
...Sober pinch-pennies derive great pleasure from betting-they are indeed the most daring fellows alive, for they hazard their careful stake on the expected and the expected rarely occurs. Your extravagant defrauds himself of excitement. He favors unlikelihoods, only to see them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams...
...this news came the report that Marshal Pétain (whom a U. S. correspondent called "France's military pinch-hitter") would make an early return to France, leaving General Naulin in supreme command of military operations in Morocco. It appeared that the Marshal had been sent to France to make an expert survey for the Government. Prince Aago of Denmark, nephew of Queen Mother Alexandra of Britain, was wounded in the hand while fighting the Riffians in the French Foreign Legion...