Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grandjean took a pinch of snuff-and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police...
British ports and British industries depending on maritime shipping were beginning to feel the pinch...
...games this week, the basketball team's showing has lacked little but the capacity to win in a pinch. Twice, against Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, the Crimson, displaying improved form, fought an Intercollegiate League five on even terms and lost in the closing moments of the game, 34 to 25 to the Green, and 26 to 24 to the Red and Blue...
...such a case the only hope for a theatrical biography is the quickening touch of recognition. If the audience can greet the players as old friends come suddenly to life a judicious compound of well remembered actions salted with a pinch of novelty may claim sustained attention. Unfortunately, Northerners know of Lee only such fragmentary crystals as remain from the precipitations of early education; Southerners know far more about Lee than any but a Southerner can ever learn...
...watch another continue that crippling process too, for the effect of it all is not limited to preventing the payment of the debt--it reacts fatally on all creditors. At the moment, England is hardest hit. But it seems inevitable that the more self-sufficing countries should feel the pinch sooner or later...