Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first nation to learn how to wring surrender from Japan. Now, as the principal victor, the U.S. must also...
There was no optimism in Germany. The Goebbels propagandists had learned that they could wring the last bitter ounce of resistance from the people by telling the truth about the enemy's power and the enemy's inroads-and by painting the enemy's intentions blacker than hell...
...still overextended; that although they might hold there indefinitely, it would be some time before they could resume the drive into Free China. Chungking's new War Minister, lean, smooth General Chen Cheng, and American officers, with whom he was on better terms than his predecessor, strove to wring every possible advantage from the frosty breathing spell...
...Follette also asked what is to become of American-built air bases; of the vast American merchant marine. Then he argued that while U.S. troops are in the field, the U.S. must "use our bargaining power to wring democratic, anti-imperialistic concessions from our allies." People all over the world are "electrified by our might" but "dismayed to hear that the voice of this giant is only a tiny squeak in the councils of the victorious powers...
...permitted to choose their attorney; a Princeton-educated Japanese is assigned them. The head judge is the Empire's political brain. The charge is murder. Grounds: the flyers bombed nonmilitary objectives and machined-gunned children. The purpose of the trial: to appease the Japanese people and to wring from the flyers the precise source of the attack...