Word: wring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...
...limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...