Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With some pain, the Duke remembered a childhood nurse who took him downstairs at teatime to see his parents, the future George V and Mary. "Before taking me into the drawing room, this dreadful 'Nanny' would pinch and twist my arm-why, no one knew, unless it was to demonstrate, according to some perverse reasoning, that her power over me was greater than theirs." Eventually the cruel Nanny was caught at it, and fired...
...Does she ever have to pinch herself to remember she is First Lady? A. No comment...
...climate nor the mouths of our horses are particularly well adapted to the making of westerns, but there is no reason why we should not have a shot at it. As for tremendously bad films about the lives of celebrated musicians, we can turn them out at a pinch, and it may even prove possible to show the reconquest of Burma without enlisting the services of Mr. Errol Flynn...
...players were willing to try anything in a pinch. In the Harvard-Pennsylvania game of 1887, the men from Philadelphia could do nothing against a sturdy Crimson line. It was a stormy day with the rain coming down in torrents, and as the CRIMSON said, "rendering the ground and ball very slippery and making fine plays impossible...
...pinch was on. The first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should realize] that a new oil-burner installation does not carry with it an assured supply of fuel." Monroe Jackson Rathbone, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), "Big Jersey," went even further. He suggested that all U.S. refineries allocate the supply of oil to retailers...