Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a one-yard rush, Foley dropped back and passed to the end-zone to Macdonald, draped among two Elis. Enemy baseball captain Collins seemed to have the ball, as all went down, but somehow Macdonald had wrung it from him, and up went the referee's arms. The rain was coming down the hardest of all afternoon, but reliable Chief Boston went in and booted the extra point high and far. The game, to all intents and purposes, was over, although another succession of Anderson-Snavely passes provided one last flurry. The fray ended with Harvard freezing the ball...
...popularity of his Prelude. He himself gave it more than 1,000 performances in the U. S. alone, got so sick of it that the mere sound of its three opening crashes gave him the creeps. Once, when asked in an interview how it should be played, he wrung his hands and replied hoarsely: "I do not care! They can play it any way they choose just so long as they do not play it where I can hear...
...over the Reich at three o'clock in the morning, wept into their beer. "Impossible," they wailed when the broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three minutes after the broadcast began. Schmeling's wife, pretty Anny Ondra, who is one of the most popular cinemactresses in Germany, sobbed: "It's terrible that punches like that are permitted." Reichsführer Adolf Hitler sent her his condolences...
...month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
Last week this problem became acute. From the interior of China came a cry from an agent of the League of Nations sent there last autumn when a Chinese plague of cholera threatened the world (TIME, Oct. 25). As cholera subsided, typhus rose, wrung from League Sanitarian Herman H. Mooser a warning: "The danger is imminent. Refugees throughout Central China are simply filthy with typhus-carrying lice. All the Chinese soldiers in the Lung-hai area (see p. 17) are lousy. There are no Chinese delousing stations, and we are half crazy trying to get co-operation from Chinese military...