Word: wrench
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...council's decision throws a wrench into the club's plans to include women in this fall's "punch," or membership selection process. It also means that the Woman Appealing for Change (WAC) boycott against the nine all-male final clubs will continue to apply...
...Since they cannot slug it out on the basis of policies, they compete in terms of patronage -- which in turn creates pressure to raise yen under the table. Hata's plan was shot down in 1991, however, when many of his colleagues saw that the reforms would throw a wrench in their own political machinery. "He has been a committed true believer ever since," says a professional acquaintance...
...hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with the animals. He was horsewhipped and chained after he tried to run away. One night Alvah and a traveling salesman subdued Jonathan and with a copper wrench pulled all his teeth, which could be sold abroad for $2 each...
...course, George Bush's loss means that all bets are off for the Republicans. The party will wrench itself through a purging and soul-searching process the like of which hasn't been since the Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 years in the White House. (A process that finally gave the GOP Dwight D. Eisenhower, a popular improvement over Herbert C. Hoover of immense proportions.) The outcome of this process is anyone's guess...
...that most typifies its age. A similar attitude prevailed among a number of revolutionary artists: Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Joyce in literature, Balanchine in ballet and Mies Van Der Rohe in architecture. Each of these men mastered the techniques of his trade and then saw fit to wrench old forms into previously unheard-of shapes...