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Word: pinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Willie Shakespeare, rumoredly at the behest of good Queen Bess, goes all out for "slap me on the ischium, and pinch me on the mammae," the result is good fun, but who said clean. When the stock company undertakes to spice it up a bit, where the heck was Jim Curley's sister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...that the 18½ pattern set in steel will not be the pattern for all. So will some ceiling prices rise-but as little as possible. For the most part, the wage increases will be squeezed out of profits, which Chet Bowles believes are big enough to stand the pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Battle of the Century | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Ever since the wartime pinch, when Communist Earl Browder first put forth the heresy that capitalism and social gain might be compatible, his U.S. comrades have been sniping at him. In July 1945, on orders from abroad, they demoted him from boss. Last week, pondering his recent conversion into a little businessman (TIME, Jan. 28), they recommended his expulsion from the party. The charges: "[Browder] is an active opponent of the party representing an enemy-class ideology. . . . [He] supports the entire policy of the Truman Administration, including its imperialist course in foreign affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Do svidaniya, Comrade | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Grind & Sass. In the worst of the labor pinch, the President had to cut down on his afternoon reducing exercises and grind through long, wearing conferences. Cheerful George Allen took to his bed, and the President lost four valued Administration lieutenants.† The C.I.O.'s young, yeasty United Packinghouse Workers sassed him (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Stress & Strain | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

There is still more than a year's supply (95,000 tons) of tin on hand in the U.S. But industry is already feeling the pinch. Example: auto men have had to redesign motor parts to cut the use of tin from four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Industrial Gold | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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