Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urged students planning to go home by car for the holidays to leave Cambridge before this evening, as snowy weather threatens to throw a wrench into travel plans...
TIME quotes Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, as saying: "You use it like a plumber uses a wrench." Kerr talks good, like a college head should...
...electron microscope is like the monkey wrench on the garage wall; what you do with it is the important thing." See MEDICINE, Prize Week...
...electron microscope. Up to 500 times as powerful as the best optical microscope, the electron microscope has already given man his first look at viruses and promises to become one of medicine's most useful tools. Says Physicist Hillier, 45: "The electron microscope is like the monkey wrench on the garage wall; what you do with it is the important thing." Other Lasker Award winners...
...dismaying dilemma: the Senate version, appropriating nearly twice the money ($1.8 billion) offered by the House, authorized special federal funds to raise teachers' salaries-a mouth-watering campaign plum. The House bill contained nothing for the teachers, but it did have Adam Clayton Powell's familiar monkey wrench: an amendment restricting the construction money to integrated schools. With the promise of a vote, if necessary, from Arkansas' James Trimble, Kennedy's adherents on the Rules Committee had the strength to get the House bill out, if Kennedy gave the word...