Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invertebrate effeminate. There is not a hint of that in Basehart's portrayal. And this has the great virtue of making believable for once Richard's final scene, in which he disarms and slays two attackers before being felled by Exton. As he falls, Basehart manages to wrench the heart when he painfully recognizes his murderer and pronounces his name in surprised disbelief--a moment as touching as Caesar's "Et tu, Brute...
Everything Moves. The Peppermint Lounge is the latest shrine for Manhattan's pleasure-sated café society. Scattered in the swarm of habitués, like rhinestones in a bowl of raisins, the interlopers watch with delighted approval as the dancers squirm and wrench...
...skill have been made upon her virtue almost daily since she turned 14, and unlike some girls whom men are always bothering, this bothers her, particularly after she leaves home to teach grammar school and falls in love with a Latin master named Patrick Standish. They meet, neck heavily, wrench apart, argue earnestly, and smoke more cigarettes than are good for them. This goes on for months, and toward the end of the novel the reader has begun to wish that Jenny and Patrick would either get on with it or take cold showers...
...wife Margaret in Medford, Mass. TT-4's legs were badly damaged, he told her. "They're trying to take us off." Back of her husband's words, Margaret Robertson heard "a loud crunching," as if the tower were being twisted by a monster wrench. Welder Vincent Brown reported to his wife that the tower had been swaying too much for work. "Air Force boys were forever kneeling and saying their rosaries. The horror of it was awful." Elnor Phelan, wife of TT-4's commanding officer, Captain Gordon Phelan, remembers that her husband called...
...most despairing critics. Point Four, the brilliantly conceived technical assistance program that plays the villain in The Ugly American, badly needs a boost. More important, it needs a staff, and a well-paid professional staff at that. Public Law 480, which authorizes agricultural surplus disposal overseas, must die or wrench itself free of the innumerable squallings that arise when the U.S. subverts the International market by shipping free wheat to India...