Word: squeaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italy has already bolstered the lira by forcing Italians to repatriate some of the estimated $16 billion they have sent out of the country for safekeeping in the past decade. International bankers at this point believe that the government's emergency measures are tough enough for Italy to squeak through its current economic crisis...
Britain's Tories were understandably apprehensive. For one thing, bushy-browed Denis Healey, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, had warned that when Labor came to power there would be "howls of anguish from the rich" and that he would squeeze them "until the pips squeak." For another, shortly before Healey brought his first budget to the House of Commons in the traditional red leather dispatch box bearing the monogram VR (for Victoria Regina), it was announced that under Conservative leadership the nation had suffered the worst monthly trade deficit in its history -$1.02 billion in February...
...Norwich Armadillos marched into Cambridge Saturday and beat back an aggressive Harvard Rugby Club defense to squeak out a hard-fought 9-6 victory...
...questionable connections of many psychic researchers, in addition to the paucity of objectively verifiable results in their work, has made it difficult to raise funds for research; parapsychologists barely squeak by with money from a few foundations and gifts and encouragement from occasional philanthropists like Stewart Mott and Manhattan Realtor John Tishman. There is only one academic chair on parapsychology in the U.S., at the University of Virginia. Should the findings prove depressingly negative, it is unlikely that academies or foundations would encourage more chairs, or promote further psychic investigations...
...boost to Harvard's title stock. "It was really emotionally draining to go on four and one-half hours against Columbia and pull it out with a 5-4 win in the last bout," White said. "To win big today is very pleasing. Now if we can squeak by next week against Yale...