Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While traders panicked and economists wrung their hands over the stock-market meltdown, the public at large seemed relatively unfazed: 70% of 810 Americans polled for TIME last Thursday by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman* said the market fall had no effect on their family's finances. Behind the general nonchalance, however, the survey found an undercurrent of anxiety: 46% said they were more worried now than before Monday's rout about America's economic future. Among the poll's findings...
...particular strength of this album, though, is that its large cast of characters -- from the wronged women to the wrung-out Saturday-night cowboys; from the rich men to hardworking Bill Horton of Cautious Man, who has the words LOVE and FEAR tattooed, Night of the Hunter-style, on his hands -- can learn to live with because Springsteen can center the dignity in all their lives. It's his name on the album and on the writing credits, but now he seems to be singing their songs...
...attacks on her as being heartless and insensitive to the ills of society, she declared the next day that "all decent people care about the sick, the unfortunate and the old. It is false and wicked to suggest otherwise." The choice, she said, is between those who complained and wrung their hands but failed to create the resources to help, and her own Tories, whose economic accomplishments provided the means for effective welfare...
Once upon a time, the news happened and was reported. Oh, those simple days. Now the news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and then abandoned for some new novelty. As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version -- whether the event itself was a flop or a success...
...reform through the Democrat-controlled House, the President had taken a calculated gamble and formed an unholy alliance with Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a bluff old-style Democratic pol. Though studded with deals and concessions to buy off various Congressmen and their constituencies, the tax package Rostenkowski wrung out of his committee last month was at least a reasonable facsimile of the reform proposal launched by Reagan with great fanfare last spring. Beset by conflicting advice from his aides, however, the President hesitated before endorsing Rostenkowski's bill two weeks ago, and even then his praise was lukewarm...