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Those who are hopeful of a Korean truce believe that the Reds are testing U.N. patience to the utmost in order to squeeze out the best possible terms for themselves: when they see they have nothing further to gain, they will make a deal. The pessimists-among whom General Ridgway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: The Struggling Frog | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Coach Huntington remarked that he was very surprised that the team won by so great a margin, and called many of the tallies "freaks" and "squeeze goals."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '55 Sextet Romps, 9-1, Over Burrillville H.S.; Favored in Yale Game | 3/5/1952 | See Source »

In the '20s, small companies had justly complained that the take-it-or-leave-it attitude of big mail-order houses was squeezing them out of business. Wood went to work to correct this. He encouraged small companies to become Sears suppliers. "Squeeze a producer," says General Wood, "and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The General's General Store | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

A Memory Course. Wrong as Wang proved to be about this observation (he was shot), Communist policy generally is to promise soft treatment for those who publicly confess their corruption. Once on the confession stand, the penitent is regarded with derision if he can remember no other misdemeanors but his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squeeze Play | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

White-Collar Squeeze. In London, after two customers helped him uncoil a 15-ft. python from around his neck, Pet Shop Owner P. E. Child gasped: "I think the time has come for it to go."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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