Word: wringingly
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...girls that Bob Becker's Dog Chats and the Singing Lady are as entertaining as the thunderous radio exploits of Buck Rogers. In Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior loses his play hours hanging over the radio, bolts his supper, gets so excited he cannot sleep...
Like Lady Macbeth, surgeons and x-ray specialists forever worry about their hands. Surgeons wring theirs to keep them supple, and pray that arthritis may never stiffen the joints. X-ray specialists search their hands for blemishes, and pray that x-ray burns may never compel an amputation...
...wring an answer out of Poland as to whether she will or will not sign an "Eastern Locarno" nailing down Germany's frontiers (TIME, July...
...Jose, Jim Farley had to give audience to a number of politicians who could not be kept out. He did not seriously mind. In Washington he seldom walks into the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, where he lives, without half a dozen men jumping up to wring his hand and say: "Oh, Jim. I want to speak to you a minute about...
...Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...