Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Britain's best citizens last week by Col. Robert Worth Bingham at the customary Pilgrims Dinner welcoming the new U. S. Ambassador to his post. For weeks in Washington Ambassador Bingham had soaked up the President's ideas on international economics until now he was able to wring them out like water from a sponge. More than the customary "hands-across-the-sea," the Ambassador's speech was authoritative advance notice of what the President's delegates would offer at the London Conference. The U. S., he cried, was "at last prepared, through proper agreement...