Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machinery, which had barred four men from speaking at the University last year died hard in early December when the Student Legislature plan to liberalize the Lecture Committee was rejected. The Legislature blamed its failure, in part, on the interference of the campus Young Progressives "who threw a monkey wrench in the negotiations," by raising the speaker issue at a critical time...
...University of Missouri one night last week, some 500 students stood outside a small, red brick house yelling their heads off: "We want Monkey Wrench! We want Monkey Wrench!" Finally a white-goateed man appeared in his doorway, waving his arms and nodding his head. After more than 40 years of teaching history, Professor Jesse E. Wrench, 70, was retiring, and his students had come to pay their respects. "My gosh," said he, "I don't know why you're honoring me. All I've done is to have fun all my life...
...Beta Kappa from Cornell, Monkey Wrench never bothered to pick up an advanced degree; campus legend has it that he was outraged when the University of Wisconsin told him that he would have to type his thesis (he had written it out in longhand on scraps of brown paper). The lack of a master's and a doctorate, however, was never a handicap. Students flocked to his classes, crowded into his office in the afternoon, swarmed into his cluttered living room at night. There, with his wife ("Grandma") and daughter (Helena Ayesha Theodora), Monkey Wrench would entertain for hours...
Last week, as his students gathered about his house, they made sure he would know how they felt. They showered him with scrolls, letters, a gold watch and a plaque. Then, suddenly, the fun was over. "This is all very nice," said Monkey Wrench, "but all of you ought to be home studying for exams." With that, he led one last cheer and shook hands all around...
...machinery, which had barred four men from speaking at the University last year died hard in early December when the Student Legislature plan to liberalize the Lecture Committee was rejected. The Legislature blamed its failure, in part, on the interference of the campus Young Progressives "who threw a monkey wrench in the negotiations," by raising the speaker issue at a critical time...