Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...required, i.e., balance its budget, tighten credit, soak up idle money by higher taxes. If the government can do this, a new and sounder peso-at perhaps six or seven to the dollar-may be established. If so, Mexico may be one of the first Latin American nations to wring the water out of its economy and get down to sound living...
...battered streets, music lovers stopped to wring the hand of 71-year-old Conductor Bruno Walter. He had come back to preside over a ceremony as symbolic as his own return: the restoration to the Vienna State Opera of a Rodin bust of another Viennese hero-Gustav Mahler...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...
Seattle's Station KOMO means to wring the very best out of its scriptwriters. Last week, architects were at work on the Thinking Room of KOMO's new studio building. Immediately before he gives birth to a script, the writer will be confined in the Thinking Room for appropriate mood-building. KOMO's President O. W. Fisher explains enthusiastically: "Suppose we have a program about Polish refugees being sent back to Poland. The writer will sit in this room, lighted in a blue-greenish color. The room will be cold. We'll have Polish folks songs...
...over him; they "patted his cheeks, pulled his nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...