Word: pinching
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...flat, crunching impact that smashed the breath out of 8,500,000 people to whom the automobile had been the most luxurious of all necessities. Uneasily they had seen the blow coming. Now, when it came, some U.S. citizens took it badly. Many others, who would feel the pinch worse, took it in patriotic silence...
Other more important signs of war's pinch in the press...
...Though newsprint (pegged at $50 a ton) is still plentiful, newspapers, take nothing for granted. Warnings have got round that the pinch will likely come in the fall, when new Canadian aluminum and chemical plants may need the electric power formerly used in newsprint manufacture...
...still busy, and wondrously successful, in the first steps toward joining the German and pinching off the great United Nations salient between Calcutta and Gibraltar. To pinch off that salient he needed control of the Indian Ocean, and he had a good start-Singapore, the Indies, Rangoon. But the other key to the salient was Madagascar, and the busy Japanese couldn't get to it in time...
Harvard came up for last licks with visiting hurler Nick Nichols confident of victory. Billy Parsons pinch hit for Berg and was tossed out by Nichols. Then Cleo O'Donnell, subbing for Heath, drove a looper to center, advancing on Stort Waldstein's walk...