Word: squeak
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...Sept. 6, the people of West Germany walked up to two doors to the future. Which would they choose? Western diplomats, disheartened by the fall of Schuman and De Gasperi, guessed timidly that Adenauer and the dream of Europe would squeak through-but barely. But the old man in the high, starched collar simply rode up to his Rhondorf home, went off to Sunday Mass, left orders not to be disturbed, and at day's end turned in for a long night's sleep...
...seemed so sure that hardly anyone wanted the Democratic nomination for governor. But Meyner has gained steadily. Last week, the most reliable New Jersey poll put him ahead. The Republicans of New Jersey may lose an election they should have been able to win easily. And even if they squeak through they can be credited with rejuvenating a weary and confused Jersey Democratic Party...
...changes in the national or international situation. He warned, too, that congressional refusal to raise the $275 billion national debt limit (TIME, Aug. 10) left the Treasury "too little headroom for safety." (Last week the national debt stood at $273 billion.) But, barring emergencies, he thought the Administration could squeak through until January without calling Congress to raise the debt limit. And he had high hopes that income and outgo would finally balance by the time fiscal 1955 begins next July...
...century, "has more than 60 different religions and only one sauce-melted butter." Other Continental gourmets, to whom the savoring of a delicately shaded sauce is almost a religion in itself, have shared his uncomplimentary views of English cookery. But the English, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable ramparts of bubble & squeak, cold shape and suet pudding, have gone right on boiling their Brussels sprouts and slicing their mutton too thick...
Outside Chicago last week, to the fiddled squeak of Turkey in the Straw, International Harvester Co. showed off a new kind of square dance that will tour the country-fair circuit later this summer. Performed by four new Harvester tractors, the dance is designed to show just how fast the machines can hitch up to various farm implements, with the help of a new hydraulic coupling device. With Harvester's new coupler, farmers do not have to dismount from their tractors to hitch or unhitch plows, harrows, weeders and other Harvester implements; working from the tractor seat, they...