Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party Pinch...
...days long past -1964, say-when love and idolatry dogged the Beatles' every step. The songs are simple, the beat steady, the tune up on top for easy listening. The words, too, push back the calendar a few years: unabashed love epics spiced with just a pinch of social awareness. "Oh, how I tried, really and sincerely I tried," quavers Robin in one song, as background strings swirl up in Pucciniesque supplication...
...Graduate School of Education, two buildings at the Law School designed to provide more classroom and office space, and a Chemistry-Biology building to be built in the new Science Center. The Graduate School of Design and the Widener underground annex might also lose federal grants in the budget pinch. Mather House, however, will be financed completely with funds raised during the Program for Harvard College and has never been a candidate for government...
...long as the special payments drain caused by Viet Nam continues-and the war effort should by no means be reduced for monetary reasons-the U.S. will have to take measures that will pinch almost everyone's pocketbook. The President spoke bravely last week, but now he has to show that he-and Congress-have the courage to back oratory with muscle. That means not merely trying to persuade tourists that the Tetons are prettier than the Alps or appealing to businessmen to put patriotism above profits, but enacting tough taxes and rigid rules to discourage travel and investments...
With less money available to borrow, all sections of the economy will feel the pinch. But as the Fed intended, it will be modest. Even the stock and bond markets, normally the first to react strongly to tighter money, took the news without a noticeable tremor because both had been expecting...