Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after sunset one day last week, a maintenance worker on the third level of a silo housing a 103-ft. Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile near Damascus, in the Arkansas hills north of Little Rock, dropped the socket of a wrench. The 3-lb. tool plummeted 70 ft. and punctured a fuel tank. As flammable vapors escaped, officials urged the 1,400 people living in a five-mile radius of the silo to flee. The instructions: "Don't take time to close your doors-just...
...redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose rise from victim to "Daddy" (the inmate who rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule...
When the University threw a wrench this week into its negotiations with Local 26, which represents Harvard's dining hall workers, union members found themselves embroiled in some half-baked bargaining...
...replaced before the plane could fly. Boeing sent in a "recovery crew" from Seattle, which took on the job like a team of open-heart surgeons. Not only did each man know exactly what he had to do, but the team's tools, right down to the smallest wrench, were arranged with such precision that no time was lost in looking for or using them...
...waiting attorney, William Kutmus, approached the judge and suggested that perhaps his client, Loren R. Wilson, might be of some assistance. Wilson borrowed a paper clip and a pipe wrench, lined up the tumblers in the lock and in three seconds popped the door open...