Word: wring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years I can't get up in the morn ing and dress myself. Nothing but agony and yelling 'Yih! Yih! Yih!' Now, by gees, I can stand and walk!" Said a farmer: "Four weeks ago I had such night sweats my wife had to wring out my pajamas three or four times every night. For the last three weeks I have worn the same pair...
Civilizer Emerson's life was not so rich in incident as it was in fellowship with Nature and acquaintances with men. His biographer is hard pressed to wring a story out of his life. "Born to be educated," as his family said, Ralph Waldo Emerson had his lessons well under way by the time he was 8 (1811) when his father William was called from his pastorate at the First Church of Boston into the grave, consoled on his death bed by Dr. Frothingham's assurance that "at least he had not outlived his teeth." Ralph and his four brothers...
...capital ship treaty, fortifying Guam and the Philippines and putting an invincible fleet of battleships into the Pacific. How would Japan like that? Repeated in the Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that it would recognize no treaty-violating spoils which Japan might wring from China as the result of current fighting. Now, however. Secretary Stimson invited other governments to take a similar position so that "a caveat [warn-ing] will be placed upon such action which, we believe, will effectively bar the legality hereafter of any title or right obtained by pressure...
Worried Emperor. Simple Arithmetic. Thus the party that once was James Ramsay MacDonald's pledged itself last week: 1) to nationalize the business of British bankers; 2) to wring cancellation of War Debts & Reparations from President Hoover* 3) to reorganize British industry a la Russe under an X-Year Plan; 4) to restore to British unions the right to organize another British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926); 5) to increase British dole payments (British unemployed added up to an official all-time record total of 2,825,772 last week, almost 10% of the electorate...
Conservative M. P.'s, conscious that DIGNITY is the sine qua non of a true British Parliament, sat owlishly upon their benches, silent for the most part, but exclaiming murmurously from time to time, "Wring his neck. Hear, hear! Wring his neck. Hear, hear, hear!" Mr. Speaker, as a last resort, adjourned the sitting and departed, but still the panting, tugging, shirt-tearing, tie-mussing, hair-tousling tussle went...