Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chance of a Lifetime." It was not with a bang, but with a wheedle, that Britain's Prime Minister asked his nation to face her crisis. In a high, flat, singsong voice, he recited cliche after cliche. Now & then he wrung his hands gently. Some M.P.s fell asleep, others drifted out of the Chamber (making polite bows to the Speaker) for a chat or cigaret...
...life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...
...half-dozen U.S. movie executives. As Cinemogul Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett, the brisk, vigorous executive of the World's Sunday School Association. Cinemogul Rank, a Yorkshireman and a conscientious Sunday-school teacher, was about the Lord's business as well...
...Throughout the debate Thorez sat, scarlet-faced and obviously uncomfortable, staring at his desk. After he had cast his vote for the Government his hand was wrung lengthily, emotionally even, by Ramadier. Thorez hung his head like a small boy when Rene Pleven, lanky, bespectacled Radical spokesman, asked quietly: 'Are there two consciences for the Communist Party? Is there one conscience for Communist Ministers, and another conscience for the rest of the Communist Party...
...March, Todd's Nationalist peasant workers could dump enough rock-fill into the new dikes to hold the diverted river's flow. If work stopped, however, Todd's uncompleted dikes might be washed out in the June floods. UNRRA wrung its hands and wondered which was worse: to risk disastrous floods by "China's Sorrow" or to risk hurting the Communist military position and thus sully UNRRA's spotless record of neutrality...