Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skillful, and how well George Roy Hill has directed and Barbara Baxley, James Daly and Robert Webber have acted it, a good deal seems somehow unsatisfying. There is, in the end, too much sense of mere surface, of flare-ups with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble on or go flat. Again, there is even here too much sex, or needless talk about it, at times on the commercial rather than compulsive...
...Brooklyn has felt the pinch of the latest downturn in our cyclical economy, you'd never realize it by conversing with people who are voting for Nixon. In response to a question about local economic conditions, only 17.5 per cent of the Nixon voters felt that "things aren't going so well," Significantly, however, 43.3 per cent of the Kennedy voters had the same opinion...
...ever increasing number of students are taking loans from the University, particularly during their senior years while working on their theses. The combination of loans and summer jobs have already caused some employers "to feel the pinch in locating students" to fill places, Burke added. If the scarcity becomes too great, he might suggest hiring high school students...
...WILLIAM PINCH...
Economic troubles have something to do with Afrikaner hesitation. The Sharpeville massacre of 72 South African blacks last March and the international revulsion that followed sent shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange plummeting $1.2 billion as foreign investors withdrew their money. Afrikaner farmers and businessmen are feeling the pinch of the $23 million in exports that South Africa is expected to lose this year as a result of the boycott of South African goods by Ghana. Malaya, the West Indies and others. And all South African businessmen are haunted by the fear that if Verwoerd proclaims a republic, other Commonwealth...