Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like two scorpions in a bottle, Greek and Turkish Cypriots were still relentlessly tearing at each other. The latest battle began when Greeks fought Turks with bazookas, heavy machine guns, mortars and grenades. By the time British troops wrung a cease-fire from the combatants, 24 had died and more than 60 were wounded in the bloodiest week of fighting on Cyprus this year...
...Englishman is very funny. But by the time Amis lets his ployman homeward plod his weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that he is a pretty dreadful character. "Very angst-producing, being a snob," he confesses to his mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child...
Seduction Scene. Monteverdi's original ran five hours, but Dallas Musical Director Nicola Rescigno pared it down to two hours and a half for his production. Where Monteverdi framed his action in tableaux vivants, Director-Choreographer Luciana Novaro, on loan from La Scala, wrung all the action possible from the remaining 15 scenes. The results were most effective in the assassination attempt and in the seduction scene that sealed Seneca's fate...
Power Struggle. It was just this goal that led teachers in 1960 to eye the U.F.T. as a possible savior. With fewer than 10,000 members, the union staged a one-day strike that wrung from the Board of Education the right of all teachers to choose a single bargaining agent. In the resulting election, the union beat an N.E.A. group by two to one, emerged as the teachers' voice...
...have turned out miles of absolutely asinine acetate, and whover wirtes thos subtilise ouhgt to be shto. Nevertheless, with stunning consistency, with the fire and élan of spirits snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life...