Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controlled by "formal consultation" among O.A.S. members. All intervention would be multilateral; no action would be taken without "unanimity" among O.A.S. states. Yet, it is difficult to believe that such "consultation" would be anything more than perfunctory, paper-thin assent to unilateral U.S. decisions. The U.S. managed to wring an ex post facto seal of approval from the O.A.S. for its action in the Dominican Republic; and in the future, Dean Rusk told the foreign ministers, the O.A.S. "ought to be prepared to move fast and effectively...
...problem is that Michael Cacoyannis has unforgiveably tried to wring emotion from a stone-dry script, presumably to titillate the crowd in the Broadway bleachers. In imitation of Luther, or perhaps even The Sound of Music, Cacoyannis punctuates the play with obnoxious Gregorian chant. His minor characters, whom Whiting wisely kept undeveloped to preserve focus, become caricature roles of great distraction. Cacoyannis also revives The Trojan Woman by turning the Ursuline Nuns into a Greek chorus...
This is the kind of "classic" that is certain to be performed scores of times during the next decade or so in cramped college dining halls, by actresses careful to wring every shared of Meaning from every syllable, before audiences of sweating undergraduates who are bored to tears by the show but oh-so-reluctant to admit...
...conquests, 'Now, no more. All is well.' But there has always been more, and there may be more still. Sir Robert Walpole said when the British people rejoiced because he had kept them out of war: 'Today they ring the bells. Tomorrow they will wring their hands...
...Israel, at the triennial convention of B'nai B'rith, retiring President Label Katz, a New Orleans real estate investor, berated Judaism's contemporary prophets of doom for their hand-wring ing anxiety. The danger of assimilation "persists and grows," he acknowledged, but "it is also profoundly true that Jew ish peoplehood persists and grows. Jew ish life somehow thrives on its own para doxes." Since Judaism is predicated on man's right to be free, said Katz, "I can not concede - no matter what sets of statistics or failures or problems are set before...