Word: wrenched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the blueprints, get out a production line and a tool list, calculate production processes and finally lay out the building where the 25-tonners would be made. Driven by hardboiled, big-jawed Eddie Hunt, a mechanic and production man ever since he was old enough to hold a wrench in his big paws, they worked seven days a week, had things in shape by Aug. 15, when Chrysler and the U. S. Army finally signed the contract...
...seized hold of me, there was a wrench as my oxygen tube snapped off (I had forgotten to undo it) and I shot out into the sky. The aeroplane disappeared...
Lord Halifax's decision to accept the post was hard. It was a wrench to be sent out of the thick of things, to be made responsible to some young fellow like Tony Eden. But the U. S. post might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together...
...Buffalo, Barcalo Manufacturing Co. made and marketed a combination screw driver, screw cap wrench, punch opener, hammer, bottle opener, cutting edge and slot-to-make-a-can-pouring...
...Harlowmen advanced into scoring territory. Finally in the fourth quarter Charley Spreyer touched off a 63 yard voyage with a brilliant 12-yard touchdown drive around his own right end. Blocking was negligible after he crossed the line of scrimmage, and that made it necessary for him to wrench himself loose from at least three would-be Brown tacklers...