Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...
Test Case. In Merced, Calif., after due investigation, the cause of the fire that broke out in Mater Misericordiae Hospital was found to be the pipe wrench left lying on electric wires by workmen who had installed the hospital's automatic fire sprinkling system...
Settlement Rejected. The union bosses who had thrown the latest monkey wrench into the act were two mild-looking men, 58-year-old William P. Kennedy, president of 210,000 trainmen, and 62-year-old Roy 0. Hughes, president of 38,000 conductors. For 17 months, Kennedy and Hughes had been demanding that the carriers cut the work week in yards from 48 hours to 40, at the same time grant a 31?-an-hour wage boost so that yardmen would make as much money as when they worked the full 48. Actually, wages would be higher, since workers would...
...night loaded with rockets, bombs and machine gun bullets. I've been working 15 to 18 hours a day maintaining these airplanes, and when I get a chance to read TIME I feel a little more like a general running this show than a mechanic with a socket wrench in my hand...
...father with sure skill. But nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track. Also, the film's makers seem to have shot two different endings and then decided to give the heartstrings an extra wrench by using them both...