Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zouzou stormed, swore, cried. A police captain, summoned, wrung his hands, rang his friends and knew not what to do. Safsaf got on the phone and asked to speak to his love. "Never," cried Zouzou. "I won't speak to him until he brings me my divorce. I'll never go back to that bald, blind, unmanly...
...plateau of teamwork can be reached through a city's slum section, which produces an everlasting succession of headaches but little revenue for private real-estate men. "My guess is that nobody in this audience is handling slum homes. You want customers-not the nickels and dimes wrung out of human misery...
...Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said: "The situation in Europe is identical with what it was before ... but the results on Asia would in themselves justify the meeting of the four ministers." Proudly and perhaps unwisely, M. Bidault represented the Geneva agreement as a concession he had wrung from Dulles in return for Bidault's loyal and able help on the German problem...
...count punch in the Olson armory, but well before the end of the 15 rounds, Bobo had the title on points. Before the ring announcer could begin his portentous spiel ("The winner . . . and new Middleweight Champion . . ."), Loser Turpin dashed across the ring with a big smile and wrung the hand of Winner Olson. The new champion promptly burst into tears of happiness...
...Lodge argued through the week, much of the British press (see INTERNATIONAL), joined by some of the U.S. press, wrung its hands because the U.S. was suddenly on the unpopular side of a vote. The cries of "intransigence" faded somewhat once Lodge had won his point. But in the great hubbub, few stopped to realize that by holding to a firm policy, the U.S. had resisted a tempting form of appeasement -and thus probably contributed solidly to any genuine settlement to be made in Asia (if the Communists really want...