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Next to them in the scale - the ones who barely squeak through - are those with the opposite psychological symptom: excessive fear of failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anxious Jumpers | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...varsity lacrosse team managed to squeak an 11-10 victory from a green Tufts squad Saturday, holding a small but constant lead over the Jumbos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Lacrosse Teams Beat Brandeis, Tufts | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...almost every Japanese who counts. He flourishes his urbanity. He delivers choicely worded insults with jolly grins, and autocratic taps of his cane. He visits the zoo, where he has likened penguins and monkeys to Japanese leaders and called out well-known names at them in his high-pitched squeak. In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Struggle for Power | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

This crew is experienced, powerful, and has precision timing. It is to be noted that Navy's only narrow squeak came from Harvard when the current was strong and the water choppy. The Schuylkill River is an unpredictable river which may give trouble...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 5/4/1954 | See Source »

...rest of the debate, even the vote, was something, of an anticlimax. By an expected narrow margin (13 votes), the Scelba coalition won the Senate's approval. The margin was sufficient to indicate that Scelba should squeak by in similar fashion in the Chamber of Deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: By 13 Votes | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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