Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, one main reason airlines have made money at all is the concessions they have wrung from their workers. Thanks to a three-year agreement to reduce employees' pay 12%, the once deeply troubled Northwest Airlines has saved $886 million. American, United and Delta are all turning profits, thanks to layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, like the sale of nonessential assets, such as flight kitchens. These carriers all registered millions in third-quarter profits, with labor concessions playing a significant role. Says an impatient Denise Hedges, the head of American's 21,000-member flight attendants' union: "We have...
...politician does vote up or down on a measure; but a simple yes-or-no, in this case on Clinton's massive deficit reduction package, does not capture what concessions a particular lawmaker wrung with his or her vote, what misgivings he or she expressed...
...Gary Beach, who bears a more than casual resemblance to the young Ronald Reagan. There is also an eerie familiarity to the Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice President is plump and scruffy, not boyishly cute -- and the big production numbers feel almost antique...
Sturges should have written Hecht's biography; he loved brash charlatans and made comic art of their deceptions. Hecht should have written Sturges'; he would have wrung high irony from the story of a gallivanting rich boy who grew up to be the top writer-director in pictures. And one of the blithest. "All I do is wave a little wand a little," purred the orchestra conductor in Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours, "and out comes the music." For five glorious years, 1940-44, Sturges waved his wand and out came words and pictures. Nothing but Hollywood's most distinctive satires...