Word: vising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that moment the potent, stubborn, self-seeking farm bloc was beaten. The vise which it had clamped on Congress, the Administration and the nation (TIME, July 20) was cracked. The vote permitted the Agriculture Department to sell 125 million bushels of Government-owned surplus wheat for fodder (to produce badly needed meat and eggs) at its own price (83? a bushel)-not the inflationary price that the farm bloc wanted. It released the $680,000,000 appropriation which the Department needs for its mammoth wartime food program. For every citizen concerned about feeding the United Nations and avoiding inflation, this...
Four men had accomplished a gigantic legislative squeeze. Lobbyists Earl Smith of Illinois and Ed O'Neal of Alabama and Congressmen Clarence Cannon of Missouri and Everett Dirksen of Illinois now had the Administration, the Congress and some five million farm operators in a tight vise...
Java was already in the vise and the time and chance for an all-out test of Conrad Helfrich's long-planned offensive defense had gone, when he succeeded Admiral Hart in the supreme Indies naval command. His main base at Surabaya was under continuous bomber attack, first from carriers, then from captured land bases. Very soon, Vice Admiral Helfrich had on his hands a desperate job of defense, very close to home...
...first symptoms of the acute form are usually the same as those of a cold-sneezing, wheezing and sniffling. Some people suffer excruciating headaches from swollen sinus membranes, feel as though the skull were in a vise. The pain may occur below or behind the eyes, may return at the same hour every day depending on the accumulation and drainage of fluid...
...face . . . has a compressed appearance, as though someone had squeezed his head in a vise. His suits are custom-made but uninteresting, and always seem a little too tight for him. . . . He is a hard man to imagine in a toga . . . whose indifference to money is such that he can remember offhand how much he was making at any given day in his life, even for singing in choirs...