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...Tough. The most important-and perhaps the sorriest case-was the loan to Britain. The Senate's grudging approval (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had sharpened British fears that in the pinch of revived competition in future years Congress would go back to high tariffs and trade warfare. Said London's Economist: "If the Senate has proved anything quite decisively, it is that Congress cannot be relied upon to pursue with any consistency the policy of moderation and liberality without which the whole structure of the loan, Bretton Woods and nondiscriminatory trade policy is built on sand...
...liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic...
...figured every angle-nothing sudden to make the nation mad; the strike, as usual, to come in April when householders would not feel the pinch; no defiant demands (yet); a cause calculated to arouse some sympathy. Everyone knew that a miner's life was a wretched one, although John Lewis had never before made a fighting issue of welfare programs...
...wartime dimout was back in Washington, Philadelphia and some other cities. New York City's millions faced the prospect of subway service curtailment and a tightening food pinch...
First sacker Fitz, who got four for five during the day, was responsible for starting the first rally that brought across the first two runs when he belted a single to right field in the last of the sixth. Pinch hitter Bill Ayres followed him by reaching; first on a boot by the Jumbos' second baseman. Both runners scored when Mal Allen and John Coppinger bagged successive files to right. The first dropped in for a single and the second was misjudged and landed safely for a double. The rally ended, however, when both members of the Crimson battery popped...