Word: wrench
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, Levi the scientist is fascinated by work and variety, a curiosity he shares with Libertino Faussone, the main storyteller of The Monkey's Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world. He is a fiction, says Levi, but authentic, a composite of workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells...
...candidate is an ordained and militant Protestant minister, crusading to wrench his party from the clutches of the moderates he scorns. But he does so < in the manner of a polished TV performer: he is immaculately attired in a dark suit, handsome, poised, physically commanding, capable of speaking with cool irony as well as passionate rhetoric. His constituency, built on a network of local churches, follows him with a fervor that is the envy of more conventional politicians. He provokes so much opposition from his party's mainstream that only a miracle could win him the 1988 presidential nomination...
There are two teams that would like to throw a monkey wrench into my revenge plans: the New York Mets and the New York Yankees, who would like to make it into a subway series...
...large wrench was thrown into the operation when the French and Spanish refused to permit F-111s to fly over their territory. A mission by U.N. Ambassador Vernon Walters to line up support from the allies failed to change their minds. So instead of flying 1,600 nautical miles due southeast from Britain to their targets, the squadron would be forced to keep to international skies and detour 2,800 nautical miles around the Iberian peninsula...
...Over near the House and Senate chambers, Congressmen must run a gauntlet of lobbyists who sometimes express their views on legislation by pointing their thumbs up or down. Not long ago, Senator John Danforth, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, could be seen on the Capitol steps trying to wrench his hand from the grip of a lobbyist for the textile industry seeking new protectionist legislation. Though Danforth himself wants help for the shoe, auto and agricultural industries in his native Missouri, the Senator, an ordained Episcopal minister, rolled his eyes heavenward and mumbled, "Save me from these people...