Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women, the outraged conservatism of doctors who bitterly resisted aseptic surgery, the heartbreak of seeing a lifesaving discovery rejected...
...Buck Rogerish craft that are still marked "Top Secret." Muroc is the world's finest landing field. A deliberately overloaded bomber can labor for miles across the lake before it tries the air. An experimental jet fighter of unproved design can be tested and wrung out, with worlds of room for landing if there is a structural or power-plant failure. Muroc's miles & miles of smoothness have allowed many a crash-threatened pilot and airplane to survive and fly again...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed the "grave concern" of the U.S. Government, and the State Department finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
...problem was wrung out at a recent House Masters' meeting after the Student Council had worked itself into a sufficient lather on the subject, and the Masters have finally tossed the whole bundle back at Mr. Reynolds. The Vice-President should stamp his mark of approval upon this idea, for if he spurns the plan to install a battery of Bendixes, one of the best proposals of late for cutting student expenses will wind up a washout...
...without the carefully arranged six-and eight-horn brass choirs of the big bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made him "a master of musical art comparable only to the great castrati of the 18th Century...