Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entailed a fearsome food bill. Since there were plenty of men to go around, girls did not worry about their figures. Appetites were hearty--women heartless. The order of the day ran, "The way to a girl's heart is her stomach." The Copley, the Ritz, or, in a pinch, the Statler, was the only place to dine. And when a college girl went out, she went to dine...
...like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge (see cut) or cargo...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
Nelson consistently produces his best shots when best shots are needed. In a pinch, his hands and nerves are steady. His slips come on the easy ones, after he eases...
...First Army had felt that pinch, which the Germans cleverly aggravated by hanging on to France's best ports until the bitter end. For weeks the First's artillery had had to hoard its shells. For one three-day period, General Hodges' headquarters mess had had no food but captured German rations...