Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killed a man. Explained Roy's brother Tobe: "This fellow decided to kill Uncle Bob. He and two pals caught Bob in a saloon. The fellow offered Bob a drink, and when Bob lifted it to his lips, he hit him in the head with an automobile wrench. Bob staggered, but he fought back and pulled the other fellow down on top of him for protection against the other two men. He reached into his pocket, pulled out his knife, then reached clear around the fellow's neck-and whoosh-cut his head off, so it was hanging...
Some of a Zen pupil's meditation is devoted to koans -short problems without logical solutions, set by the individual's Zen master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them from TV at mealtimes, 46% at bedtime...
...magazine articles, explained Joe, Stewart "increasingly prefers it, and I increasingly loathe it." Added the elder Alsop, who returned to the U.S. last week after writing a penetrating series of columns on Britain's "let's-stop-the-H-bomb" mood: "It's a great wrench. We just had a family reunion, and there were floods of tears, diluted with champagne." To Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which was separating just as the drama approached some sort...
...householders-and so is the "they." "They," in the moment of supreme exasperation that coincides with the collapse of an electric dryer on washday, is the apparently easy going, unhurried individual who is striving manfully to maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises-the familiar Mr. Fixit of fact and financial friction, the man everyone knows-assiduously courted, ardently denounced...