Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes had as many as three wives at once...
...after he ran away from the battle in "The Red Badge of Courage"; the time-sequence shots of flowers opening in the spring in Walt Disney's "Nature's Half Acre"; and finally the scene in Walter Slezak's kitchen where he and Cary Grant discuss how science has wrung the beauty out of living, especially eating, in "People Will Talk...
...Wrung Dry. "Imitation after imitation of Miss Bowen's magnificent novel went into exercise books - stories of 16th Century Italy or 12th Century England marked with enormous brutality and a despairing romanticism. It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject." At 14, a story had made Graham feel what most children learn much later, if at all. "Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey...
...away from home, when he was 16, he was sent to London to be psychoanalyzed. He lived at his analyst's house-"delightful months . . . perhaps the happiest of my life." It is doubtful whether they were happy months for the analyst. Graham emerged from psychoanalysis "correctly oriented . . . but wrung dry." He felt bored, and he stayed bored a long time...
...Doud (who had joined him at West Point) into his Constellation and flew to Washington in muck and driving sleet,* landed at the National Airport and saluted the extraordinary committee of welcome-shivering generals, ambassadors, members of the Cabinet-and the President of the U.S., who wrung his hand and led him to his limousine, shooing off photographers with the anxious comment, "We can't give this fellow pneumonia." President and general drove off to the White House to lunch, to give Eisenhower a chance to say what he had to say first to his Commander in Chief...