Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also something of a symbol. Associated in most minds with the stirring days of Aristide Briand and the invincible Clemenceau. Herriot is 1) President (Speaker) of the French National Assembly, 2) leader of the influential rightist Radical Socialist Party. Last week Herriot the symbol threw a symbolic wrench into the delicate engineering of the European Defense Community...
...supposedly routine meeting of the French cabinet one day last week produced an announcement that had all the contours of a big diplomatic monkey wrench. The French, in an abrupt departure from the agreed-upon tactics of the Big Three allies, asked for a four-power conference with Russia on the question of Germany...
Fairbank cited Moscow's heated denunciation of him for proposals made in his books on China. He quoted "Russian Communists" as saying that "Fairbank wants to wrench the peoples of Asia away from the democratic, anti-imperialist camp...
...This is, of course, quite true," the professor went on. "I do want to wrench the peoples of Asia away from the Soviet camp...
...during the negotiations the Reds stalled and their stalling intensified when Russia's Vishinsky threw a wrench into the truce machine...