Word: wringer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear) the action does not so obviously develop under the eye of God and the sinners do not even know that they need a salvation, but they go through the moral wringer just the same, and pay in some way for every foray against human conscience...
...LONG NIGHT, by Julian Mayfield (156 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), puts a ten-year-old Negro boy through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...
Household Goods. In Milwaukee, a for-sale ad in the Journal read: "Washer; wringer; new encyclopedia; shotgun; wedding dress...
...nonessential, nonmilitary federal programs. "Now, by whatever amount savings fail to equal the additional costs of security, our total expenditures will go up. Our people will rightly demand it. They will not sacrifice security to worship a balanced budget. . . Some savings may still be squeezed out through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face, and pressure groups will wail in anguish...
Before that - and since, for that matter -U.S. rural folk liked to say that they "ain't had so much fun since the hogs et Little Willie." or "ain't laughed so much since Grandma got caught in the wash wringer." With each new generation, psychiatrists attempt to explain the meaning of such jokes in relation to their era. Cer tain only is the fact that Little Willie...