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...have responsibility for the mess of pottage he sells us." Some delegates also noted privately that the union's younger members tend to see Woodcock (and other top U.A.W. officials) as being management-oriented. That may not coincide with the opinion of the auto executives, from whom Woodcock wrung an 11.6% wage in crease in last year's negotiations, and who now will have to face him across the bargaining table one more time...
...party members and Soviet intellectuals into prison camps in the 1920s and '30s. He memorized hundreds of grim stories told by the survivors. He also noted the methods of police interrogators, often so cynical that they did not even bother to disguise their disbelief in the confessions they wrung out of their victims...
...figure of Lenin. Solzhenitsyn rejects the Kremlin's thesis that Stalin alone was responsible for the "excesses" of his time. Instead, Solzhenitsyn devastatingly demonstrates that the imprisonment of millions under Stalin was made possible by Lenin's establishment of a ruthless police state. He ascribes the confessions wrung from government leaders at Stalin's purge trials to the work of professional hypnotists recruited under Lenin. Weaving personal testimonies with historical data, he records Leninist purges, Leninist concentration camps and Leninist mass executions...
...just concluded a jet-propelled, hush-hush tour of his own to two oil-rich neighbors and Syria. With Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Emir of Qatar, Sadat had discussed how best to use Arab oil and funds in the fight against Israel, and had wrung promises of lavish support. These commitments strengthened Sadat by leaving him less dependent on money from Libya's bubbling black gold...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...