Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such tactics had already wrung from the Brazilians a verbal agreement to barter 3,000 tons of rubber for wheat. Juan Perón first drove Uruguay to rationing bread, then told Montevideo bakers that they could have all the wheat they wanted after he took office next month. Uruguay's elections come next fall, and Perón, who has never had much good to say for intervention, would regulate the flow of wheat to make sure that his candidate-Senator Eduardo Victor Haedo...
Uncommon Man. Non-Reubens were also heard. "Damn the men who look back," cried OPAdministrator Paul Porter. Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau stared fixedly into chaos. The Ohio C.I.O. Council wrung its hands over the "foulest deed . . . done by a wicked alliance of Northern reactionary Republicans and Southern Democrats...
Editorially, the Pilot, official organ of the Boston archdiocese, wrung its hands: "G. Bromley Oxnam has to live with himself. Undoubtedly he says prayers before he retires at night. In these orisons, in his baring of soul before a God Who reads our innermost hearts, let the Bishop weigh his responsibility for the confusion he spread in that . . . talk, for the pain he inflicted on all whose only trust is the Crucified Hope of the world, for the delight he gave to those who try to convince themselves that belly, sensual desire, is the only god worthy of rational worship...
...Army Captain John P. Simoni was an exasperated man last week. The AMG's chief educational officer in disputed Trieste perspired and wrung his hands. To New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn he stormed: "What do children of grammar and junior high school age know about politics...
...Eggs" & Harry. He campaigned without fear against "Ham & Eggs" in 1939 when it was in its full flower in California. He also posed-while party workers wrung their hands-for pictures with Harry Bridges, then the state's No. 1 Bogeyman...