Word: squeaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...