Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They had little if anything to say about the American coup in Guatemala, the CIA's intervention in Iran, its role in the creation of Diem, or the American support of Trujillo; but they regarded communist "colonialism" with horror. The plight of the communist satellites wrung their hearts; that of South Korea and South Vietnam left them unmoved. They denounced racism in the Soviet Union while ignoring it in South Africa and the United States until it was no longer possible to ignore it.... It was possible that they had so completely assimilated the official point of view that they...
Something has been lost in the translations. Isherwood's stories were taut, bittersweet recollections of bohemian Berlin in the early '30s. By the time Scenarist Allen and Director Fosse have wrung them out, what's left -with one exception-is mostly slack and sour. The exception is their vibrant star Liza Minnelli, who cocks a derby over a green-shadowed eye and struts off with the movie, or as much of it as is worth carrying...
...told largely in flashbacks-opens with a shot of Jenny's corpse. What is surprising is that Jennifer on My Mind is allegedly a comedy. The subject, which has only slightly less comic potential than Bangla Desh, was written up with unbounded vulgarity by Erich Segal, who has wrung laughs from young love and leukemia in his time. As in Love Story, however, they are all the wrong kind...
Failing the Test. The immediate trouble is that Connally's negotiating method is to press the other side to the limit, and to see what concessions can be wrung out before offering anything in return. That tactic may work at home, but Europeans do not bargain the way Texans do. Unpublished sections of a report adopted by the 55-member council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, meeting in Geneva last week, indicated the danger. The report warned that if the U.S. import surcharge is still in effect by Jan. 1 and prevents the U.S. from carrying...
...Jackson the grave was the life of black people in a racist society, the prison a kind of cemetery for the not yet dead, and the journey back from both could only be made through violent revolution. "All the gentle, shy characteristics of the black man have been wrung unceremoniously from my soul. The buffets and blows of this have and have-not society have engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself." Last week in San Quentin, the flame burned...