Word: squeakings
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...requests faced an uphill struggle. A Gallup poll released last week reinforced that feeling; it showed that 78% of those polled opposed more aid for either Cambodia or South Viet Nam. Nevertheless, Ford received two pleasant surprises as the Congress began processing his Cambodia proposal. By identical squeak-through margins of 4 to 3, a subcommittee in each chamber kept the notion of some kind of aid to Cambodia alive...
...rubber mouse with a squeak...
...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...