Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told my shrink." His daughter Maggie, 16, had problems with her boy friend; so they became an episode of One Day at a Time. Even Walter's 50th birthday on Maude was all in Lear's family. "My father had a thing," he recalls. "He'd pinch the skin on top of his hand, and when he'd let go and you could still see the impression, he'd say it was a sign of growing old. I did that on my 50th birthday, and so did Walter...
...seemed to work for Patty rather than against her. He got her to repeat in more detail earlier testimony in which she told how she had been sexually molested by Donald DeFreeze, the self-styled "field marshal" of the S.L.A. who was known as "Cinque." Asked Browning: "Did he pinch one or both of your breasts...
...effect losing the concept that a person working is paying for his or her retirement." Social Security Commissioner James Cardwell fears that reliance on general revenues instead of payroll taxes would be "an open invitation to enlarge the program." As the financial burden of a larger program began to pinch, Cardwell believes, the idea of an "earned right" to benefits would be dropped...
Even with all these preparations, Dorothy has not quite convinced herself that she is going to the Olympics. "When people say 'Good luck in Innsbruck,' " she explains, "I have to pinch myself." If Dorothy is beaten, it will probably be by Diane de Leeuw, who has a strong if unexceptional style. De Leeuw, though able to skate for The Netherlands because her mother is Dutch, is a resident of Paramount, Calif. She chose to enter under the Dutch flag because her family thought Diane would make that Olympic team more easily. The other serious contender is Christine Errath...
...early January, when Christian forces blockaded two Palestinian refugee camps, Tal al Zaatar and Jisr al Basha. A third camp, Dbayeh, was attacked and captured last week. Christian spokesmen insist that they were not trying to starve out the 30,000 inhabitants of the camps but simply attempting to pinch off shipments of arms. Many observers in Beirut believe the blockades are intended to dramatize the role the Palestinians play as a "state within a state" in Lebanon while the United Nations Security Council debate on the Middle East is in progress. A major Christian condition for a cease-fire...