Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Gunther, who still has to go Inside Australia, instead spent last summer on hauntingly familiar territory. Hopping from capital to capital, filleting his sources like sole meuniere, he wrung a wholly new book from the beat where he first made a name with Inside Europe a quarter-century ago. In Inside Europe Today he surveys the new faces and altered conditions of a continent that has "immeasurably, fantastically" changed since 1936. The most striking change he found is one that makes Inside Europe Today a less urgently important book than its doom-shadowed predecessor. This change, in Gunther...
...grey dawn of last fall's defeat, the Republican Party wrung its hands in anguished awareness of the fact that Jack Kennedy's 112,803-vote margin over Dick Nixon was the narrowest since the 1888 presidential race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. Last week, turning from anguish to analysis, the Republican National Committee issued a statistic-studded report on the 1960 voting trends. Items...
...clouds. When they fall through dry air, most of the ice evaporates, but tiny bits remain trapped in crevices. When these ice-seeded particles get mixed with a moderately cold cloud, they make it yield snow or rain. Mason argues that much of the earth's precipitation is wrung out of clouds by just such "trainable" earth-dust particles. Kaolinite and other kinds of clay are extremely cheap, so it may be possible to make sure that the air over thirsty countries always has plenty of just such particles-always ready, willing and able to precipitate clouds...
...other unions within G.E. have accepted its contract proposals, G.E. refuses to modify them under pressure of the big union that went out on strike. Said G.E. Chief Negotiator Philip D. Moore: "Carey is looking for one concession which he can represent as a great victory that he wrung out of the company. He is a master at taking the skin from a gnat and stretching it over a boxcar. Well, he's not going to get a concession from...
Farewell, Nebraska. By the time the unhappy threesome reached the Lincoln airport (with only a warning for speeding), Bobby had wrung a promise from his companions to try harder to weld the diffident organizations together and win the day for the Democrats. But as his plane headed for Kansas City, Bob Kennedy reached a glum conclusion: Nebraska, like much of the farm belt, was sticking with the Republican Party. Even in the Democratic tenderloin of South Omaha, only 35 of the faithful had turned out to-hear him speak that morning; at Lincoln's Cornhusker Hotel there were just...