Word: wrench
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...take no pleasure in newsmen out of jobs, readers without primary sources of information that neither radio nor television nor news magazines can supply, and businesses suffering from being unable to reach their customers in their normal way. The dismaying effect of the strike is symbolized by the monkey wrench on the cover...
...years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength of the land," yet, in this silent scene, a feeling of conflict is still there as the earth struggles to wrench itself from the cold clutch of winter...
...previously envisioned Senator Byrd as a pompous know-it-all seeking to throw a monkey wrench into this Administration's or any administration's legislative hopes...
...invertebrate effeminate. There is not a hint of that in Basehart's portrayal. And this has the great virtue of making believable for once Richard's final scene, in which he disarms and slays two attackers before being felled by Exton. As he falls, Basehart manages to wrench the heart when he painfully recognizes his murderer and pronounces his name in surprised disbelief--a moment as touching as Caesar's "Et tu, Brute...
Everything Moves. The Peppermint Lounge is the latest shrine for Manhattan's pleasure-sated café society. Scattered in the swarm of habitués, like rhinestones in a bowl of raisins, the interlopers watch with delighted approval as the dancers squirm and wrench...