Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place where leaking news to favored reporters was long considered the best way to do business (in Franklin Roosevelt's day, Press Secretary Steve Early could do little but wring his hands at the sight of braintrusters passing secret papers to press pets-a sight as familiar as the White House flagpole), Hagerty discourages contacts between correspondents and other White House sources. His standard reaction upon spying a leaked story in a newspaper is a wounded-bear yell: "Good God! Where do they get it? Where do they...
Politicians of the FLN executive committee are led by 58-year-old Ferhat Abbas, "grand old man" of Algerian politics and a onetime moderate, whose failure to wring concessions from France has turned him into an embittered extremist. His close aide is Dr. Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, 40, bitterly anti-French veteran nationalist who is subject to bouts of depression caused by attacks of neuralgia that partially paralyze his face. Both he and Abbas have served as Deputies in the French Assembly...
...outstanding trait about the U.S. college student of 1957 is that he is not acting at all as a college student is supposed to. His professors cannot decide whether to clap or wring their hands over him-whether he is dull or simply more mature than his predecessors...
...adulterous, "worthless" woman who "did everything for money," described her excessive drug-taking, demanded that she return his gifts of jewelry. With Mother on hand, Joanne holed up in a lush but lonely ten-room villa in Switzerland's Jura Mountains and waited for her attorneys to wring a financial settlement from Pati...
...Boss Dave Beck is proud to point out that he once was a Seattle laundry driver. By last week. as Beck made his third appearance before the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering. so much of his dirty laundry had been washed in public that the Teamsters were ready to wring him out of office. Because there is no clear-cut constitutional procedure for impeaching him now, the reformers looked toward September when the International Teamsters open a convention and hold an election in Miami Beach, Fla. First to volunteer to take a crack at Beck was an old pal, Fourth...