Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved particularly effective in defending his sponsor ship of the Landrum-Griffin Act, whose regulation of union elections and finances is anathema to Detroit's labor leaders. Griffin makes much of the fact that John F. Kennedy was floor manager for the measure in the Senate, adroitly wrung from Williams in a face-to-face debate an acknowledgment that labor can live with the act. Whatever the outcome, George Romney's hard work on Griffin's behalf seems sure to improve the Michigan Governor's standing with many Republican leaders who have distrusted...
...pages of copy good enough for the next Scorpion. He will wait until he has at least twice that before putting the magazine together. "It's such a pain to put out, it might as well be big enough to be worth it." All the material is solicited, "hard wrung," from people either he or his board knows. A few things have come in unsolicited but, Kuttner says scornfully, "You pass a Cliffie on the street. She scowis. You scowl. Well, that's the kind of writing you get from these girls...
Broadway Director Mike Nichols, in his first movie job, can claim a sizable victory simply for the performance he has wrung from Elizabeth Taylor. Looking fat and fortyish under a smear of makeup, with her voice pitched well below the belt, Liz as Martha is loud, sexy, vulgar, pungent, and yet achieves moments of astonishing tenderness. Only during sustained eruptions does she lapse into monotony, or look like an actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway...
...Wrung Necks. Napoleon was a maniac for detail, and one of the first of the Organization Men. He demanded and got a running record of every regiment, including a summary of its encounters, its numerical strength, the roll of its injured and sick and the number of its annual recruitment. He commanded an elaborate network of spies who informed him minutely of the strength and movements of his adversaries. He centralized authority absolutely in himself, and his precise, ingeniously correlated orders of march gained a maneuverability for his army that was far in excess of that enjoyed by any other...
Seven weeks. Zut! The man at Delmonico's wrung his hands. "Usually things like this are planned four or five months ahead," he moaned. But he would try. And right up to two hours before the party started, decorators and caterers struggled to transform the hotel's sedate, continental Crystal Room into a black-and-white striped tent with a "pop-op" decor. Then suddenly the room was filled with 445 stylish, milling guests and the music of Meyer Davis' orchestra. And dancing among them, smiling, shy and lovely, was the person it was all about-Anne...