Word: wring
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...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...
...persuaded Canada to lower tariffs on 261 items; it failed to wring a single important concession from the rest of the British Commonwealth. But since the U.S. offered its tariff cuts to all countries participating in the conference, the British Commonwealth got the benefit of U.S. cuts anyway...
...Allies should not be surprised m the future when the new German Foreign Office guides its policy solely by what Germans consider their own self-interest. German diplomats will probably try to wring every possible concession from the West, in return for German participation in Western European defense. From this point on, a major test of Western policy will be how firmly and skillfully it deals with an independent Germany...
...expedition to Cambodia which is looking for a jade eye. There are a couple of men in the expedition and they are being chased by various women, some of whom are native to the country and most of whom are masquerading as somebody else. The Pudding was forced to wring every possible gag from this story; it was not an easy job, and the result frequently is dialogue like...
Almost two-thirds of the anthology is devoted to poets who lived into or wholly within the twentieth century, and many of the old standbys of the Genteel Tradition are given much less space than they have been accustomed to in the past. ("I have tried to wring the neck of the kind of rhetoric that overflowed into poetry from the oratory of the day, and that was fulsome even there. Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell were the worst offenders...