Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly had Prime Minister Winston Churchill zoomed back from Moscow to announce that the question of Poland and the Balkans would vex Anglo-Russian relations no more, than those relations suffered a new wrench.* This time it came in Iran-traditionally a prospective Russian Lebensraum, traditionally a very tender spot with Britons. For Iran lies like a massive wedge between British India and British-controlled Iraq. It is also the source of much of Britain's Near Eastern...
Star Time (produced by Paul Small) is a creaky vaudeville coupé kept moving only because Lou Holtz, a tireless master of ceremonies, is between the shafts. There is one big-time act: the gracefully dancing De Marcos. Otherwise, harmonica players wrench the eardrums, songbirds ravish the mike, top-hatted Benny Fields suggests a crooner in a cinemusical about the early...
...must be gradually reduced in size whenever any part of it no longer serves a military purpose. Any prolonging of war contracts is a hindrance to speedy reconversion. At the war's end the whole obstacle must be bodily removed as quickly as possible, even though this will wrench loose a sensitive and complicated network hooking together the Government with more than 17,000 direct suppliers and some 70,000 indirect producers. Dr. Kaplan recommends swift and persistent surgery, that war contracts be cut out as rapidly as possible in the time that remains...
...storm swirled across the countryside in a path 300 yards wide, leveling trees, houses and fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville, the tornado uprooted a new $250,000 pumping station, and slammed it against a hillside. An 80-lb. wrench lit in a field a half-mile away. Rescue workers counted 58 dead from the "Shinnston Tornado," worst in West Virginia's history...
...Olson & (Chic) Johnson, hellza-poppers, told United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman that their monkey-wrench minds were already at work on the sets of their new snow: Jerks Berserk. Some of their newest secret weapons: eight seats in the third row which drop customers into the cellar, hot-water drinking fountains, dachshunds coached to steal the shoes of foot-easing women...