Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of silver, China has had deflation. In vain the Chinese Government imposed a silver export duty. Silver was smuggled out. When silver prices last week sailed toward Heaven, China grew desperate. Finance Minister Kung appealed to all patriotic Chinese to keep their silver at home. Chinese Ambassador Sze wrung his hands on the steps of the State Department in Washington: the U. S. was ruining its one friend in the Orient...
...looks as if the President is due to get a bird: The Blue Eagle is coming home to roost and die. General Johnson's brain child born in a laboring, emotional crusade two years ago is having its neck wrung by Senator Clark's resolution. The Senator is giving the NRA nine more months to live; the President's proposal of two years is too long. Evidently now that the sun is shining, industry is getting more bold in telling the government to keep its hands...
...Gosh, I'm dumb!'' wailed Prisoner Roiderer, his face ashen, eyes bulging and lips aquiver as he hysterically clasped, flopped and wrung his hands. "I am a hare's foot-a scared rabbit-but I am a good German. I am no spy! When I was going from Munich for a little holiday in Switzerland an official called me 'You coward!' and then he said. 'Confess-or we will make you confess...
...hats shone as they were handed in at the cloak room. Shirt studs twinkled on the spotless expanse of many a broad political bosom. Legislators' ladies beamed right and left under their freshly marcelled hair. Round & round couples cumbrously revolved to music. Many a white-gloved hand was wrung enthusiastically. And the most smiles, the most handshakes, the most congratulations were reserved for one man. It was a fine thing to be a governor and attend your own inaugural ball -ten years...
...last week the nine wise faces of nine elderly justices of the U. S. Supreme Court crinkled in sedate amusement as they wrung from a perspiring Assistant Attorney General the tale of how the New Deal's lawmaking machine had slipped...