Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hardest Pinch. Some defense companies insist that continued international tensions and the need for ever newer weapons will make any severe defense cuts impossible over the long haul. The Pentagon argues that major cuts are possible, points out that heavy spending to develop basic weapons systems is over and that further outlays will be mainly for modifications to update them...
...badly Castro feels the economic pinch is evident in a recent series of feelers to "normalize" relations and resume trade with the U.S. Last week in a telephone interview with ABC's Lisa Howard. Castro suggested that President Kennedy was leaning in that direction before his death, and Castro added: "The decision belongs to the U.S. Government to take the next step to help that normalization, because it is difficult to say what we can do." In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk swiftly denied that Kennedy saw any early improvement in relations with Cuba...
...have sadly changed. Uneasy still lies the head that wears a crown-the $80,000-a-year presidency. Nobody tells old President Edwards, due for mandatory retirement, anything he does not want to hear. He is even provided with the tragic flaw of the Shakespearean hero. He likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file them away in his great big desk. It is a pretty harmless foible, but if this were known, what would it do to the "Company Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although...
Sophomore Doug Hall courageously left his slot in the scrum to pinch hit, but unfamiliar with the position and hampered by a shoulder injury, he found it difficult to catch the ball. On a wet day, the teams tend to kick much more, bringing the opposing fullbacks into important roles. Thus, inexperience worked to Princeton's advantage...
...vice but can't decide which is which. In it, Paul Newman gamely plays an oversexed newspaperman exiled to the Champs Elysées after meeting too many deadlines with his boss's wife. Joanne Woodward is a department store buyer who treks abroad to pinch designs from Dior, Lanvin-Castillo and Pierre Cardin. Naturellement, she herself wears mannish styles and spectacles-she's a sort of hemidemisemivirgin, "a girl who tried love once but didn't like...