Word: wringer
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Nobody went through the window, and few really went through the wringer. But the convulsion that swept the stock market cost millions of Americans dear in anticipated profits, and particularly the amateurs among "small investors" who put their money into the market at or near its peak and sold out at last week's low. Not since the dread year of 1929 had trading been so heavy (average daily volume: 10,000,000 shares) or the ticker tape lagged so late. Before the week was over, delays of an hour or more in the tape became routine...
Fact Man. Candidate Glenn and 510 others were run through a wringer of mental and physical tests. Doctors charted their brain waves, skewered their hands with electrodes to pick up the electrical impulses that would tell how quickly their muscles responded to nerve stimulation. Glenn held up tenaciously under tests of heat and vibration, did especially well with problems of logical reasoning. Says Dr. Stanley White, a Project Mercury physician: "Glenn is a guy who lives by facts...
...series of tethered propulsion tests at Edwards Air Force Base that it decided last year to bypass the normal flight tests of components. The first Minuteman fired all three stages, put its brand new inertial guidance system, its nose cone and its flaring steering nozzles through the wringer in one bold gamble.* The stunning bull's-eye meant that the test program would be cut by months...
...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...