Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked up a wrench to hit David with," Mrs. Common continued. "I told him not to do it because he would hurt trade and wouldn't no one work for him. I took David across the street, 'cos you can walk away from trouble better than you can walk out. On my way back the man passed me running with a piece of iron, I said 'Look out, David'. When David turned to look round, the man met him with the piece of iron. David fell down and the man struck him again when...
Bullhorns & Diapers. Abernathy would probably be happy to get so visible a location, since the main purpose of the campaign is to wrench the national conscience and prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants...
Jackie's reaction was predictable. Her secretary informed Annemarie that "Mrs. Kennedy feels it would be better if you didn't come back." Said Annemarie, who claims she never talked to the columnist: "It was a wrench. I admired her, and I loved and adored her children. I was ready to jump down 20 floors." Instead, she went to the hairdresser, donned a miniskirt and received the press...
...finance ministers of the ten powers-the U.S., Britain, Canada, Sweden, Japan, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands-prepared for their conference in the turreted Foresta Hotel on a cliff overlooking Stockholm harbor. At a meeting of Common Market ministers in Brussels, France dropped a monkey wrench into the agenda by calling for a complete overhaul of today's monetary system and a return to the gold standard. The other five Common Mar ket countries rejected the idea on the ground that it was no time to debate the design of a new system when...
Choice Graffiti. From the outside, the club could hardly be plainer. Except for a black awning, a red flag emblazoned with a monkey wrench, and a stream of Rolls-Royces arriving and departing, the grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...