Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever. In London a detachment of Scotland Yard men rounded up roly-poly Father Kallinikos Macheriotis, Cyprus-born abbot of a Greek Rite church, as he cooked his solitary supper of beef and eggs, and deported him summarily to Greece. The angriest questions of Labor M.P.s failed to wring from government ministers any more than the bare statement that his activities "went beyond any legitimate ecclesiastical duties and were not in the public interest." Despite this unyielding attitude in public there were signs that both the British and the Greeks were increasingly desirous of ending their cold war. The exiled...
...determined Jewish island in a sea of hostile Arabs, Israel had suddenly ceased to wring its hands in self-pity over what it considered the perfidy of the West. Its new mood was a combination of realistic apprehension and determined self-reliance...
...Stalin had contrived and falsified evidence, against party members
whom he (in most cases wrongly) conceived to be his enemies. He
"murdered" (Khrushchev's word) hundreds of old Bolsheviks, including 70
out of 133 members of the Central Committee in 1937. He had tortured
people in order to wring confessions out of them. Even little children
had been tortured, said Khrushchev, as tears streamed down his face. To
get confessions, Stalin had promised some victims a dacha (country
cottage), but "the only dacha they saw was underground."
...broken promise plainly indicated that the amnesty was conceived from the beginning as a trap. Having failed to catch bigger game, it was sprung on Carlos Arcaya, presumably to wring from him information about other exiles...
...getting so it's plumb impossible these days for a cowboy to go walking on the streets of Laredo without getting his chaps all snarled up in dude professors fixin' to wring another book out of his innocent tanned hide...