Word: wringingly
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Michael Davenport keeps at it, perhaps unwisely. After more than one episode of psychosis and years of trying to wring poems from a life that eludes him, he marries Sarah Garvey, his daughter's high school guidance counselor, and accepts a teaching post at Billings State University in Kansas. There is no sanctuary on the open plains. The professor tries to write his way out, but finds himself describing the results to his wife and his publisher as "kind of a transitional book - kind of a plateau performance, if you see what I mean." It is a plateau that...
...like to wring the necks of the people who own Craigie Arms," said City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci at Monday's meeting...
...response to all this from Washington has been low-key and reassuring. While the Soviets wring their hands, pound their fists and wag their fingers, officials of the Reagan Administration shake their heads wearily but indulgently. Soviet-American relations are not all that bad, they say. Nor, the Administration implies, should they be all that good. The two nations are, after all, fundamentally and irreconcilably at odds over how their own societies-and indeed the planet itself-should be run. Détente was, in that sense, unnatural...
...Bradley needed to court white votes to win elections, Jackson has opted for confrontation, forging all-black protest blocs to demand concessions. At Operation PUSH, he organized boycotts of white businesses in order to win more contracts and jobs for minorities. In the process he was able to wring concessions from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Another group under the PUSH umbrella is proving to be a political liability in quite a different way. Last month federal auditors demanded that PUSH-EXCEL return $708,431 of over $3 million in U.S. Department of Education...
...increases, higher domestic-program funding and lower military-spending levels included in the Gorton compromise. At a White House staff meeting the next morning, the mood was somber, despite the attitude of detachment toward the Senate budget decisions. It was dawning on everyone that Reagan's inability to wring an acceptable budget out of the Republican Senate was a sign of political weakness, not something to brag about on the hustings. It was becoming clear too that running against Congress is tricky when one house belongs to the G.O.P...