Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow correspondents reported that this clause gravely alarmed most of their Russian friends, for the same reason that it set most Germans beaming with elation: it implied that J. Stalin in the ultimate pinch might put the Red Army into World War II on the side of A. Hitler...
Long before the 1938 recession gave U. S. -Japanese trade a final shove down grade, indignant U. S. buyers had begun to boycott Japanese goods, and long before the rape of Nanking Japanese sellers began to feel the pinch. Since Japan had only a pipsqueak gold hoard (published reserve then $261,000,000, now close to zero), Japan's merchant salesmen had to sell more goods in the U. S. before Japan's buyers could get more money to spend in the U. S. market...
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was India's kindly Viceroy in Saint Gandhi's brightest days as India's great passive resister. Perhaps in a pinch now, Saint Gandhi would recognize not his inner voice but the voice of Halifax...
...Streussel recipe: half cup of butter, eight tablespoons of sugar, one grated lemon rind, one pinch of cinnamon, four cups of cake flour. Mix, break into rough crumbles, spread thick on yeast-raised coffee cake...
Manhattan society has let its hair down in recent years, no longer counts an opera box the chief symbol of eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract...