Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when all the returns were in, Pulitzer Prizewinner De Carvalho (he won it in 1952, when he was on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle) found he still had some gaps in his story. Wrung out, Miss Callas balked at yet another interview, but finally consented if De Carvalho would courier her poodle puppy Toy from Rome to Milan, which...
...commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan's C. V.Starr and Co. His company's losses totaled nearly $5,000,000 before the Reds were satisfied. Said Miner: "Our companies were wrung dry like dishrags until we had lost everything...
...week's loudest complaint against the constitution rose from Egypt's leading feminist, Dr. Doria Shafik, who declared that it grants "women no right whatsoever" and is a betrayal of written promises wrung from the regime by her 1954 hunger strike...
...favorably mentions the University of Chicago, where Pete played football under Alonzo Stagg-before Dr. Robert M. Hutchins took Chicago out of the Big Ten. Pete's wife wasn't too upset because, as she wrote, "I sat out too many games in pouring rain and wrung water from my purple velvet hat in our courting days...
...second fad swept through Japan. Stealthy marimo-kapparai (marimo snatchers) haunted Lake Akan, diving into the water at night to kidnap the helpless creatures. Marimo smugglers brought them to Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, and Japanese tourists bought them furtively, paying up to $50. Biologists and nature lovers wrung their hands in anguish, but nothing effective was done. The little pets from Lake Akan were snatched almost to extinction...