Word: squeakings
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...teams that had just managed to squeak into 1945's Series, there was just one last squeak left...
...chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, President Conant has been in close touch with the nation's wartime rubber needs and with the program that "created an industry out of nothing." The people of America do not realize, said President Conant, "just how close a squeak this rubber shortage...
...show. At halftime, Nelson had collected 15 points and his team led 25-to-24. Army, as usual, came back strong in the second half, got its fast-breaking offense into high gear. Although Navy surged back after losing Nelson on personal fouls, Army had the aggressive confidence to squeak through...
Henry Wallace, assured by his backers in the Senate that his nomination would at least squeak by, kept his silence...
During the whole course of Churchill's life, Britain had been engaged in a hidden or open life & death struggle with Germany. In World War I the struggle had bled Britain white. In World War II Britain had had her closest squeak since Napoleon. More than any other single man, Winston Churchill had saved the Empire and in doing so had saved Western civilization. But there had been a price...