Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth Kenny, then 23, did the best she could. Strips of blanket, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, eased the child's pain so that she soon fell asleep. When she woke she cried: "I want them rags that wells my legs." Sister Kenny applied more of "them rags." Soon she applied them to five more stricken children in the neighborhood. A year later she could report to her physician friend, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, that the children had recovered without paralysis...
...treacherous criminal stole up behind Lee Tracy and knocked him out with the butt of a revolver. But moments later, 54-year-old Actor Tracy leaped nimbly to his feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...
...back when the canoe capsized, but won promotion to lieutenant general, thus at 46 became the youngest three-star general in U.S. history up to that time. (His record was broken later by the Air Force's Lauris Norstad, who got his third star at 40.) Later Clark wrung from Admiral Darlan the cease fire order to all French forces in North Africa. After serving as Eisenhower's second in command in North Africa, took command of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy. Heavy casualties at Anzio, the Rapido River and Cassino brought him abuse from many...
When Benito Remedies' roosters lost cockfights, Cubans said, he wrung the cowards' necks with his own hands. Once, when a brand-new $7,500 Cadillac refused to start, he riddled its recalcitrant carburetor with bullets...
...from his dreams Leonardo wrung some amazing realities. He took up military engineering, and invented prototypes of the machine gun, the tank, the explosive shell, the submarine. Turning to municipal planning, he conceived a city with two-level highways. He designed the first power loom, the first rolling mill, the first differential gear, the first picture projector. His studies in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, optics carried him centuries ahead of his day. Even his amusements made history: he invented a musical instrument that anticipated the harpsichord; he improved the printing press, rigged a style of oil lamp that was used until...