Word: pinching
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...Pinch-faced, monocled Louis Marlio, while he saw great hopes for aluminum, saw "no foreseeable peacetime market" for magnesium, wanted these brave new plants scrapped. Mr. Marlio was also discouraging on the subject of post-war "national [industry] councils" to be set up for planning purposes. "I have seen the same thing in Italy," he said. "At the beginning . . . the scheme was good and very liberal . . . but after two years the Government representative was head of the industry...
...greatest of Axis pincer movements threatened the world last week. The pinch was aimed at Russia. Indirectly it was aimed at all world hopes of escaping the worldwide designs of Adolf Hitler...
...prevent the development of such a double-pincers movement, the shadowboxing U.S. and its fighting allies have one obvious tactic: to pinch first. Last week the U.S. was pressing in the Atlantic, holding its previously applied pressure in the Pacific. There was a suspicion that Japan's bellicose gesture was the result of a demand by Adolf Hitler, not only to attack Siberia, but to divert the U.S. from its warlike moves in the Atlantic...
...year the colony has felt the pinch of sea blockade, but not until the British under Lieut. General Alan Gordon Cun ningham had mopped up most of Ethiopia last May was the wall around French So maliland complete. Then, after Vichy began to play hard at collaboration, the British and Free French sent an ultimatum to Governor Pierre Nouailhetas at Djibouti: surrender or starve. When the Governor refused to surrender, the British clamped down. By land British troops ringed the colony; at sea patrol boats of the Royal Navy stopped food ships, often in sight of pierhead watchers at Djibouti...
...just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve a new drink (two jiggers of elderberry wine--"we made it ourselves," a teaspoon of arsenic, half-teaspoon of cyanide and just a pinch of strychnine is the recipe) with a kick that's decimating, and people roar at wholesale murder. If all murders were as funny as these, the human race would assassinate itself off the earth and the last man would die laughing...