Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to fight in a new war, are still in the early stages of reorganization; the Army Ground Forces, the same. The job of reducing the 8,300,000-man Army of V-E day to peacetime size had been done with a sledge hammer instead of a wrench. Along with its veteran citizen-soldiers, the Army has also lost scores of its brightest professionals, who would not endure the skimpy salaries and slow decay of peacetime Army life...
...Cape Harting, with crated P-40s on her deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup...
Captain-elect Frank Gurley almost threw a wrench into the NYU scoring plans in the trials Friday when he just missed catching Reggie (1:51:5) Pearman in the last 10 yards of his 330 heat. Although he failed to qualify. Gurley ran his best half of the season, stopping the watch...
...wave is forming. Most pilots ease back when they feel it. But some are tempted. Said one: "You feel a surge of excitement and mischievous satisfaction as a gentle nibbling disturbs the controls. Some unreasonable devilment urges you to start the compressibility processes which in a few seconds can wrench all control away from you and plunge the ship into wild, tremendous vibrations...
...Jimmy Byrnes wants to get Allied troops (about 75% of them Russian) out of the country. The Balkans were sure to provide fireworks. With such obstacles ahead, optimism had to be well qualified. Asked how the conference was going, one U.S. official cracked: "Nobody has yet thrown a monkey wrench...