Word: wring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second place late last week. While Boston has been losing, New York and Baltimore have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals and old journeymen. Outfielders Elliott Maddox and Lou Piniella have been hitting over .300. Rudy May, a recent acquisition, has helped an ailing pitching staff, backing up young Doc Medich...
...running a segment of Burlington that was generating a hearty share of the company's earnings. Indeed, Klopman, a tall, lantern-jawed New Yorker who had helped his father run a family company that Burlington bought in 1956, is known throughout the industry for his relentless desire to wring out maximum profit...
...employing the author's own intricate metaphor-performing a ritual of crucial selection. Bogdanovich and his screenwriter, Frederic Raphael (Darling), have swept out all the undertone from Jamesian society, trying instead to make high drama out of mere social graces. It is a little like trying to wring a sonnet out of a bill of fare...
...until only 28% of the items in the consumer price index and 38% of wage and salary earners were still covered by the Economic Stabilization Act. Last week's decision means that workers in most industries would be able to hold onto any wage increase that they can wring out of an employer without being overruled by the Cost of Living Council. Controls will continue on two industries: petroleum, where prices have been soaring because of the energy crisis; and health care, where costs will encounter considerable upward pressure if Congress passes the Administration's proposed national healthcare...
Evidence in tow, an incredulous Nicky confronts Lesley in the book's climax, pitting his doubts against her certitude, his emotions against her coolness, attempting to wring from her a confession of responsibility. But Lesley evades everything, seeing it only as some game, and not even a macabre one at that. The confrontation, as it must be, is a stand-off: Nicky refuses to succumb to his sister's inhumane logic but neither does he press ahead for any definitive verdict against...