Word: wrung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While elder partner Adams wrung its collective hands over the horrible fate facing the Mole, a host of famed detectives and seekers of the right added their weighty names to the membership rolls of the latest chapter of the fast-spreading movement...
...Japanese were used to war scares. There had been press campaigns against Russia and against Britain, but this was different. The Japanese were told by their leaders that the U.S. sought to destroy them (see p. 27). They knew that now all the power they had wrung out of 47 years of blood and toil was at stake. With the weariness of a tired man about to be summoned to a task greater than his strength, the Japanese people waited...
...scarcely more than caricatures of human fallibility. But the drugstore-library sensationalism that still overhangs Cain's work does not stop him from being one of the most readable storytellers in the U.S. He has broadened his subject matter and, with a cruel anthropologist's tenacity, virtually wrung...
...feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, are set squarely against the footboard. Thus he exercises the muscular reflexes used for standing up. His arms are kept at his side, his knees straight. No splints or casts are used. Hot packs made of pieces of blanket wrung out of boiling water are laid on his paralyzed limbs. The packs are usually changed every two hours, every half hour in very serious cases...
Most of the richest treasures had been removed from the British Museum, but incendiaries hit and gutted its library, one of the world's greatest. Ironically, while Egypt lay under the Nazi threat, the museum's Egyptian section was almost demolished. But if sentiments were wrung by these noble ruins, far more hearts were broken and lives were taken in less historic spots...