Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late John ("Three-Ring") Ringling, was inspecting the circus' Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters. Imprudently disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...
...Joseph Konvitz, head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. & Canada, sternly urged the strikers to re-open "for spiritual as well as economic reasons." He feared that Jewish housewives would soon be tempted to buy nonkosher meat. After holding out a full week and having wrung promises of investigation from both city and Federal agencies, the butchers unlocked their shops-with steaks down from...
...when the American Bar Association held its annual convention in Washington, its members enthusiastically wrung Herbert Hoover's right hand until it bled. Had he been at Kansas City last week, Franklin Roosevelt's hand would not have bled but his ears might have burned, for 3,000 members of the Law's outstanding professional association met there in a very different state of mind. If anything were needed to put a fine edge on the legal profession's fury at Franklin Delano Roosevelt it was the Constitution Day address three weeks ago in which...
...were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from the depths of their exhaustion; the song (low, monotonous, tragic) positively wrung from their entrails, the very sound and expression of an unquenchable and undefeatable vitality. They were mostly young, very young, the month's growth of hair on their faces soft and curling...
...Administration will total up to nearly $9,000,000,000. largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...