Word: wring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sincerity & Suspicion. Another criticism of Dulles is that his "intransigent" attitude toward the Soviet Union increases the danger of superbomb war. British Socialists and their new spiritual leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, wring their hands whenever Dulles makes a statement defining the struggle with Communism in moral and religious terms...
Buenos Aires department stores have cut prices right & left. Bankruptcies during the first eight months of 1952 were five times as many as in the same period last year. More important politically than the business wring-out is the growing unemployment. Of 130,000 textile workers, 35,000 are now estimated to be out of work; the percentage in the building industry is almost as high. Having tried valiantly to ignore the problem, Perón's labor chieftains now seek deals with hard-hit firms to get employees from the provinces fired first, and to spread the work...
Striving to wring off-the-diamond drama from its subject, the picture poses a rather odd and artificial triangle: Dizzy loves both his wife (Joanne Dru) and baseball. More authentic but with no higher cinematic batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive...
...President said, the public must not wring its hands about this situation. It must understand the consequences of secrecy and applied nuclear physics, and it must learn to "live with these consequences with charity and sanity." This, he said, "is surely the chief spiritual problem of our time...
...knew him in the past, a subdued man in contrast to World War II days, when he used to play host at lavish parties and declaim his own poetry at the dinner table. The death of his son has hit him very hard. Sometimes a sudden memory will wring from him an uncontrollable sob. He is, like MacArthur, essentially an old-fashioned man who believes unbendingly in the old-fashioned virtues-but also in the new-fashioned ways of waging war. "The only thing," says De Lattre, "that matters any more is duty-duty to France, duty...