Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally beginning to bring the overexuberant U.S. economy under control. "Inflation is being wrung out of the stock market," says Walter E. Hoadley, executive vice president of California's Bank of America. "The correction is a prerequisite to a resumption of healthy growth...
...wall still snake across the neck of Britain. For generations, antiquaries have poked at it and puzzled over it as antiquaries will, especially if they are British. The latest is David Divine, a military correspondent for the London Sunday Times, who prefers strategy to stones. He has wrung from the grassy ruins evidence to show how Domitian's mistake, and the very existence of the wall, prefigured the eventual doom of Roman Britain...
...group of analysts is convinced that the Communists, bloodied by 180,000 battlefield deaths so far this year, have battered themselves to the brink of impotence. If this reading is accurate, concessions can be wrung from Communist negotiators in Paris through astute haggling, reinforced by military muscle against a weakened Viet Cong...
...damns them with faint praise. He might better have either found their special beauty (as he did in Dracula), or left them in the ominous darkness of their baskets until they limped, wriggled, and crawled forth to execute a plausible vengeance on their enemies. From deformity Browning could have wrung mature terror instead of adolescent fright...
Trying to preside over it all is Wolf Walker, a troubled escapee from a Hasidic Jewish boyhood. For him-head still throbbing with Talmudic commentary and heart still wrung by questions of moral choice-the academy is a refuge from his own perplexed humanity. Armed with tough talk ("Suicides are like children. You have to know when to ignore them"), he struggles to give academy inmates a fairer choice than they ever got in the real world. At the same time, he fights off board members who are chiefly interested in getting the would-be suicides to leave their money...