Word: squeezees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Big Squeeze. Outside the Pentagon, as the new chief of staff went to work, the U.S. itself was still retreating, in Vandenberg's phrase, "from one fading hope to another" in its military policy. The President's Advisory Committee on
This vest-pocket veto and Truman's big budget squeeze of the year forced the Air Force to slow its buying of fighters and fighter-bombers, and to concentrate on building up its Sunday punch, the big-bomber Strategic Command. The squeeze also nipped the Navy's plans...
But the Engineers came right back to tie it up again. Dickson walked, Bill Henderson singled, and Bob Danforth brought both of them home with a triple to right center field. Danforth scored a moment later when Webb bobbled Dick Morganster's squeeze bunt.
That night, 3,400 Southerners paid $50 apiece to squeeze into four dining rooms of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel for Dick Russell's opening campaign fund dinner. Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and three neighboring governors-South Carolina's James F. Byrnes, Florida's Fuller Warren...
But by last week, with West German negotiations devoting loving attention to details, it became clear that occupation's end in Germany too will squeeze some of the rich butterfat out of the occupiers' lives. The Rhine mansions, the special G.I. trains and bargain fares, the free servants...