Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rein in the money supply, whose growth is still exceeding Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's targets. Says Investment Analyst Julian Snyder: "For Volcker, the next three months provide a great opportunity to clamp on the monetary brakes with minimum political interference. He can try to wring out in December what could not be wrung...
Welty can wring humor from the Southern idioms without mocking them. In Petrified Man, a beautician named Leota reminisces about her recent courtship: "Honey, 'me an' Fred, we met in a rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of half an hour." In The Wide Net, a none-too-bright husband thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with...
...popular conception of Bowie's parabolic musical career, even on the part of sympathetic critics, has been tinged with some of this Victorian opprobrium: Bowie the musical chameleon, the masquer, just doesn't seem to have the stamina to stick to one style and wring out its musical worth, but must nomadically migrate to a new brand of music and a new "persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical...
...does not wring confessions out of witnesses or win acquittals for innocent clients. He never affects tailored suits or dour expressions. There is no need for him to impress his clients. The people who come for help are usually guilty as charged. What they need is not style, but help. And that is exactly what they get from Jeremiah Francis Kennedy, whose wife refers to him as "the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston...
...Shah back to us!" One man plucked out his glass eye and shouted: "That's what the Shah did to me!" Another lifted up his armless five-year-old son and told Waldheim that the Shah's secret police had mutilated the child in an attempt to wring a confession from his older brother, who was an anti-Shah dissident...