Word: crowbarred
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...county trustee (for eight years), and then as just a plain political boss, he slugged and beat and charmed his way to power. Always, he fought the "interests." When the Frisco and N.C. & St.L. railroads failed to agree with his interpretation of their franchises, he marched out with a crowbar, tore up their tracks, and stationed police over his handiwork...
...veteran Eighth Army against the very face of the Matmatas. The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara. Through the thick of it roared his planes. The mountains thundered and echoed with his artillery barrage. His infantrymen, like the point of a crowbar, jabbed into Rommel's suddenly faltering defenses. Montgomery's armor poured through, levering the crack until it was a wide and shattered hole. The Mareth Line, southern bulwark of the whole Axis position in Tunisia, collapsed. This week Rommel retreated...
Beardsley Ruml set out to crowbar the biggest stumbling block now in the way of his plan: the plausible-sounding objection that the Treasury would "lose" a year's income if a year's taxes were "forgiven." Not so, said Businessman-Banker Ruml in a letter to Kansas Congressman Frank Carlson: the Treasury would, if anything, collect more money with pay-as-you-go than without it. The Ruml reasoning...
...those landed on Gavutu Island in the Solomons. His tank proceeded up the beach that day in advance of the infantry, spied a Jap pillbox, stopped to fire. Out of a bomb shelter near by poured a horde of reckless, howling Japs. They swarmed over the tank, jammed a crowbar in the tank-track...
...soon sickened and in 1861 at the age of 38 died in California. Through the efforts of his attending physician, Dr. John M. Harlow, the skull came to rest in an exhibit case at the Harvard Museum. Only regret among Museum officials is that they don't have the crowbar...