Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more recondite reason is possible. Tides, lunar and solar, of course influence ocean currents. When sun and moon act together their pull gives the entire ocean flow a mighty wrench and affects the climate of bordering land...
Daily Telegraph: "Exceptional strength and iron will power-in short, a man who, finding a door that seemed to stick, might be expected to wrench it open. . . . lurching plane. . . . accidental plunge...
Sunday Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, dictated a letter to the leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
...half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...
...enthusiastically with me in helping me do for Jesus Christ the best job of which I am capable.... As the main engineer I will say that my hand is once more firmly on the throttle, and despite the latest explosion and other puny efforts to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery, or to put goose grease on the track, the old train, thank God, is still making the grade...