Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise. Then he spent two dreary months jogging or walking around the U.C.L.A. practice field, for up to six hours at a stretch. In April, under the anxious eye of U.C.L.A. Track Coach Ducky Drake, he tried sprint starts. But Johnson and his coach were most afraid of back-wrench ing jumps. At last, in late spring, Johnson took a deep breath and started down the pole-vault runway. He cleared the bar-and plummeted into the sawdust without a twinge. Johnson was back on the track...
...career. Wobbling up at the count of nine, Johansson was ready for the kill. With a pro's cold fury, Patterson hounded him about the ring, shooting home numbing lefts to the body and a jolting short right to the head. The final left hook seemed to wrench Johansson's jaw around his ear. For a full four minutes, Johansson lay completely unconscious on his back, stiff and stark except for his spasmodically twitching left...
...tentative heralding of distant spring was a welcome break in the routine at Grandview Hills No. 1, the northernmost oil-drilling operation in Canada's history. Only the day before, a dropped wrench, crystallized by the -42° cold, shattered like an icicle when it hit the derrick floor...