narrow squeak
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Despite this narrow squeak, the Republican leadership marched straight up to an identical crisis two days later, forced establishment of another separate committee�Small Business�under the chairmanship of Nebraska's rambunctious Kenneth Wherry.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the end of a campaign that included everything from singing the national anthem to physical combat, she was returned to Parliament by the narrow squeak of 211 votes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phumiphon Aduldet, 20, King of Siam, who is going to school in Switzerland had a narrow squeak.
From Time Magazine Archive
He won by the narrow squeak of 230 to 228 and, for the time being, saved the Cabinet.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He's got safe away, but we had a narrow squeak for it," he said, and told her what happened.
From Fast as the Wind A Novel by Gould, Nat
