Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order was needed. Ever since WPB halted civilian truck production a year ago, the demand for good used trucks has been whopping. Prices soared 150-200% above normal; speculators bought trucks right & left, cached them away for even higher prices; fleet operators wrung their hands as speculators wrung their pocketbooks. Even after OPA's order, some trucksters wondered how long the brake would hold. Special rules already permit extra charges for such parts as oversize axles, tires, special brakes, etc. Thus, while a truck may be pegged at $675, the extra heater may cost $500-or no sale...
From Boss Petrillo the Bostonians wrung one special concession: Unlike other U.S. symphony orchestras, the Boston will be able to hire union musicians from outside Boston's Local No. 9 without special permission. One expected result of the union agreement is the signing of an estimated $75,000 broadcasting contract with Columbia Broadcasting System...
...year-old New England Conservatory of Music last week opened its School of Popular Music, first of its kind to be started by a Grade-A music school. Its short-haired faculty: eleven experts, headed by starry-eyed Ruby Newman, who wrung his evocative hands for four years running in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, last season manipulated smart airs at 70 debutante parties...
...toes stretching beyond the mattress, were set squarely against the footboard (so that the children could exercise, without effort, the muscular reflexes used for standing up). Their arms were kept at their sides, their knees straight. No splints or casts were used. Hot packs, made of pieces of blankets wrung out of boiling water, were laid on each child's twitching limbs, changed every two hours-in serious cases every 15 minutes...
...Tikhonov, a scout, was supposed to bring his prisoners in alive, for questioning. But his prisoners always had their heads and bodies bashed and were dead or dying. Scout Tikhonov wept, and wrung his hands, and promised to do better, and never did. He said that he had seen the Germans rape and kill a girl in the barn at home...