Word: wrench
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...paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and last week the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory...
When Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm opens in a satiny broadcasting studio, surviving members of the common-drinking-cup generation may get something of a wrench. And when Shirley tells them, with well-rehearsed and gleefully interpolated chuckles,' that...
...With a wrench the Vagabond tore his mind from reveries and returned to his book of the moment. It was a history of the Irish Rebellion, telling how noble young men and patriots suffered torture, prison, and even death at the hands of the British during the years of the World War and after, all for the sake of freedom. Prisons fouler than Widener were endured by these youthful idealists, and hunger strikes were their only means of getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could...
...seemed to think that to throw an untrained man into the hurly-burly of modern Hollywood would be like throwing a monkey wrench into the works...
Meanwhile last week The Scheme was rapidly falling to pieces as members of the Non-intervention Committee consulted their home governments and received instructions. The Soviet Government threw a monkey wrench by insisting that all volunteers must have withdrawn from Spain before Moscow will agree to granting belligerent rights to Franco. The Italian Government threw an equally deadly spanner, although loudly blaming Moscow for having already caused the wreck, by declaring that Italy could not promise to be bound by findings of the Committee as to the number of volunteers on each side in Spain and consequently...