Word: pinching
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...familiar America-Firstish faces were there in the Mural Room of Chicago's Hotel Morrison: the furtive, snickering little women who pass around anti-Semitic postcards; the Coughlinites; the pinch-lipped, waspish old couples with gleaming eyes; the Patrick Henry Forumites; the overcorseted We the Mothers; the fanatical ragtag & bobtail of a 100% star-spangled movement...
Civilians & Cotton. As with every other shortage, greedy civilians, moving in on low prices, made the cotton pinch tighter...
Western cattlemen, looking ahead for a year or so, fear a pinch sooner or later too. If they turn out to be right, the U.S. decision to upgrade the feeding habits of the world (from plain grain to grain converted to meat) will turn out to have been one of the costliest decisions of World...
...fourth of the needed replacements. With the war burning oil ever faster the ratio of new wells to use probably means far more pessimistic figures in 1943. The U.S. will not find itself out of oil tomorrow or the next day. But when the war reaches its peak, the pinch may come. To avert that pinch, wildcat oil wells must be sunk this year...
Here the Stahlmen rallied for four runs, driving Cahill from the mound. Wally Flynn's double was the only extra base blow of the rally, which featured singles by Gerry Callanan, pinch-hitting for Berg, Walt Sorgi, Brooks Heath, and Red Wilcox, and a walk granted to Ned Fitzgibbons...