Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fresh Pinch. As much as they pleased the Europeans, such reassurances were even more welcome to Americans, who have seen inflation ravenously and relentlessly eat into their real income. Inflation is reflected in price rises that reached an annual rate of 4.7% in December. It is particularly burdensome for the poor, who are least able to adjust to the ever higher cost of goods and services. By making U.S. products costlier and less competitive on world markets, it has also hurt the nation's bal ance of payments. Inflation's grip is so tenacious that it will undoubtedly...
...Unknown Soldier" during his three years in the job, Kuhn was a compromise choice. Caught in a squeeze play between Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees, and Charles ("Chub") Feeney, vice president of the San Francisco Giants, the squabbling owners surprised themselves by deciding unanimously on Pinch Hitter Kuhn on the first vote. Said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn: "The two leagues have been feuding for so long I didn't think we could even agree on the sun rising in the east...
...hills, and after them clops the cavalry including a bony scout named Sam Varner (Gregory Peck). In the ensuing roundup, one face is out of place: a blonde woman, Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint), prisoner of the Indians for some ten years. Out of pity-and maybe a pinch of desire-Varner takes Sarah and her half-breed son to live on his New Mexico ranch...
...board sees it, the fundamental inflationary pressure on the economy lately has come from spending by business. The board has therefore aimed its credit pinch at the chief source of corporate loans: the commercial banks...
...other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch-hit. At the Metropolitan Opera, John Alexander had to give up after two acts of La Sonnambula. And in Philharmonic Hall, Pianist Jose Echaniz could not even make it past intermission...