Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value of the visits would be seriously jeopardized if critics of the visitors were able to force some sort of open and acrimonious confrontation. But the concern and, in many cases, disgust with which a substantial portion of the University community viewed the war in Vietnam threw a monkey wrench into the Institute's delicately wrought design...
...workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled with it. Six minutes after the cry of alarm, the hatch sprang open. A blast of hot air shot out, followed by suffocating clouds of smoke...
Died. Sir "Evelyn Wrench, 84, a wellborn journalist from Northern Ireland and longtime chairman of The Spectator, who in 1918, in order "to draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-speaking people of the world," founded the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, to facilitate cultural exchanges, give scholarships, hold conferences, in 1920 founded a U.S. counterpart, saw the groups grow to more than 100,000 members; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England...
...with tweezers, U.S. Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour for complicated stomach...
...full space walk (at lower altitudes) during which Pilot Gordon will manipulate a battery-operated wrench to fasten and unfasten several bolts on a plate outside the spacecraft...