Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only so much can be wrung out of executive departments. Instead, as the President said at his press conference, Congress has to cut out some of the programs that it has passed into law. As an example, Ike pointed to water-pollution control and vocational-training programs; they should, he said, be handed over to state and local governments. Possibly a time of high national prosperity is the right time to start closing out many of the federal subsidies to farmers, veterans, states, cities. Somewhere along the budgetary line, something will have to give-and, as the satellite news made...
...Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick religious fervor the equal of Rouault...
Bowen began a study of Australia's weather almost cloud by cloud. He dispensed his silver iodide from generators on airplane's wingtips, learned by repeated experiment what kinds of clouds could be wrung out. Then, backed by the Australian government, he started a long series of carefully controlled experiments in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales...
...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...
Jealousy & Sensuality. Munch's development of his other theme-man's impotence before the power of ferocious womanhood-would seem ludicrous if it had not so obviously wrung anguish from the painter, driven him close to madness. The exact identification of the woman who so long tantalized Munch has never been officially revealed, but art historians now believe that the redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist...