Word: wring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most desperate hours of our history Poland sent us Kosciuszko and Pulaski. Surely we can do more for the Poles in their time of need than wring our hands...
When Concha's parents refused to allow the match on religious grounds, Rezanov returned to Russia, vowing: "I shall wring consent from my Tsar, the Pope, your father!" But on the homeward trek across Siberia, the nobleman died on the icy steppes, causing his disconsolate Concha to become "San Francisco's first...
What went wrong? In initiating Milton Friedman's theories, Thatcher seems to have discovered a catch-22. Push interest rates to a record high, which she did, and it is private enterprise and individuals who have to curtail investment and spending. Force noncompetitive businesses to wring out their slack and unemployment rises. As workers "go on the dole...
...uncanny understanding of love, delusion, hope and, in Tyte's case, the buried anger that "had driven him in search of presents." It is a tribute to the author's moral instincts and talent for psychological realism that one can sympathize with Tyte and also want to wring his neck. -ByR.Z. Sheppard
...common or otherwise. It does not make sense to worry and cry and celebrate and rejoice over the doings of men whose lives cannot possibly affect our own. But millions of us do all those things and we love it. Baseball, indeed all sport, gives us the chance to wring out our emotions, emotions that are often left embalmed by the rest of our lives...