Word: wring
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Plain were two propaganda objectives in this and other recent German speeches: > To play on the fear of defeat in order to wring new sacrifices from the German people, and keep them united internally. > To divide Russia from her allies by harping on the familiar theme that Germany is the European bulwark against Bolshevism...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide to Poland's General Sikorski. In the House of Commons, Wing Commander Archibald William Henry James tried to wring from the Government the assurance that no post-war territorial settlement would be made without first submitting the proposal to Parliament...
...long-term plans to dehydrate the capital structures of bankrupt railroads last week ran afoul of the Treasury's plans to wring more taxes from industry. Chairman John Samuel Pyeatt of the Missouri Pacific Railroad-in receivership since 1933-sent a letter to 40,000 bondholders, urged them to reject the ICC-sponsored reorganization plan...
...wring your hands. > Don't put pencils in your hair. > Don't wear clanking bracelets. > Don't talk baby talk. > Don't wear long fingernails. But tint your nails (to avoid being different) unless the superintendent or community objects...
...Congressmen could not have watched it more nervously than they watched the 1941 Tax Bill, just sent in by the Ways & Means Committee. But under the gag rule to bar amendments from the floor (which Republicans planned to fight as usual, expecting as usual to lose) they could only wring their hands, utter a few pained monosyllables, then vote on the bill. They were expected to do their duty by passing it this week...