Word: wrought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With one mighty swing, Dave Winfield exorcized his demons and wrought revenge upon his foremost tormentor, slugging an 11th-inning, two-run double Saturday night to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to their first World Series title...
Nowhere is the damage wrought by racial discrimination and isolation more evident and painful than in the schools. "In a way, the most tragic years for African-American kids are the years from fourth to sixth grade," says Kozol. "Those are the years in which the dream dies. In many ways, poor white kids and poor black kids suffer equally. But in the inner-city schools, where the injury of caste is compounded by the injuries of race, the misery is of a different order...
...story from somewhere off in the Third World -- less important, by inference, than the natural disasters in Hawaii, where four people died, or Florida last month, where 41 perished, in hurricanes. Yet the floods that have been building up in Pakistan over the past month have wrought one of the worst natural disasters there in 45 years. More than 2,000 people have drowned, and innumerable farm animals have been left floating in the polluted waters of a vast brown inland sea that has covered thousands of villages, the nation's ! major cotton and food crops, and a collapsed infrastructure...
...think." But less than 48 hours later, Bush himself was appearing live from the Rose Garden on the CBS This Morning show. The network's producers had plucked 125 somewhat perplexed people from a White House tour to ask questions while the Commander in Chief shifted uncomfortably on a wrought- iron lawn chair...
Listening, Fay shakes his head sadly. The forests have always yielded food and wood during the millenniums Pygmies have hunted in central Africa. They cannot conceive of the devastation that roads and logging have wrought upon tropical woodlands beyond their charmed world...