Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrung for weary bodies' pain...
Sophomore Steve Mesd, anchoring the eighth wrung on the ladder, also dropped one game but, like Gwathmy, settled down to beat his man convincingly...
...none of it? Eagleton seemed to suggest as much in his account of a Saturday telephone conversation with McGovern. McGovern, he said, had told him that he "had been under pressure" about Eagleton's candidacy. Yet, Eagleton insisted, three times in the course of the conversation he had wrung from McGovern the phrase "that he's 1,000% for me." Defiantly, the vice-presidential candidate told newsmen: "I'm going to stay on the ticket. That's my firm, irrevocable intent." Even if McGovern decides to keep Eagleton after all, the net effect has been...
...role to give it the clean profile of humanity and of pity. The actors do him proud, seeming to have traveled every step of the way, from adolescent victory to middle-aged defeat, laughing and crying together. Director A.J. Antoon, who directed Cymbeline in Central Park last summer, has wrung a triumph of ensemble acting from these splendid players. To Joseph Papp, "Bravo!" once again. Serious drama has no finer friend. ·T.E.K...
...reasons of its own, Peking also reacted with restraint to the news that Hanoi and Haiphong had been bombed. The North Vietnamese practically wrung a measured, pro forma statement out of Premier Chou Enlai, who noted simply that "escalation failed in the past and will continue to fail" because it makes "the entire Vietnamese people unite ever more closely in their fight." The Chinese want nothing to interfere with the opening of relations with the U.S. A few days later, Chou was all graciousness as he received the Senate's leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott...