Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was seven, Kyosai had become a full-fledged art student. He wrung the traditional Kano academy dry, and appropriated every technique of Japan's old masters. Then he opened his own highly unorthodox art school. For the edification of his students, he kept the school yard crammed with pets. Nature, Kyosai had decided, was more instructive than convention. He always knew that the eagle would eventually conquer the wind...
...transcript of Lawson's testimony before the committee, he was cross-examined. His aggressive, cocksure manner gone, he hedged and fidgeted as he was asked if he had been active as the committee's chairman. It took swarthy Defense Lawyer Ben Margolis five tries before he wrung from Thomas the reply: "Well, I don't want to be facetious or even egotistical, but I would say yes to that question...
Since he came back to Washington, Lovett has even wrung some words of praise from New York's terrible-tempered Congressman John Taber, the brass-lunged dragon of Capitol Hill. Said Taber: "He makes sense. Understands fifth-grade arithmetic. Very rare in Washington...
...SONG OF LOVE: From ____'s great A-Minor Concerto was wrung a vapid tune, timed for the forthcoming movie on the composer's life...
...stretched thongs in an open courtyard in Lahore, half naked, her head "wrung steeply back, her legs rigid in a convulsion as of birth, a woman lay dead...