Word: wrenchingly
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...drug developer, HIV is nothing but a thief. All the virus wants to do is break inside a healthy cell, steal its genetic machinery, and start profiting from the intrusion. To stop a thief, you need to throw a monkey wrench - or several - into his plans...
...feeling of hollowness or incompleteness,” he says. “It kind of knocked the wind out of me. I’m still catching my breath. I felt like I was on one trajectory the last three years at Harvard. This kind of threw a wrench in that and shook that up.”Nevertheless, Dern says he still got a few boons out of the process. “It’s been a lot of time for reflection,” he says of his time on the show...
...prohibitively high. The commercial, which had four alternate endings, showed a pair of auto mechanics inadvertently touching lips while sharing a Snickers bar. To compensate for their accidental smooch, they “do something manly” like tear out chest hair, hit one another with a wrench or a car hood, or drink motor oil and windshield washer fluid. It clearly doesn’t get more manly than that...
...last year’s triple overtime thriller, this season’s edition will be essential in the fight to the finish.Although the Crimson needs help to win the Ivy League championship after last weekend’s loss to Penn, it has the chance to wrench the title out of its perennial rival’s paws with a victory and an improbable Dartmouth win over Princeton. The Bulldogs can solidify their own share with a victory.“To us the Ivy championship is on the line, we need to beat Harvard to get to that...
Where does representative democracy end and populism begin? The question has been posed high and low in France for the last couple of days since S?gol?ne Royal, the clear frontrunner to be the Socialist candidate in next spring's presidential election, proposed tossing a new wrench in the already dysfunctional French mode of governance. Her idea is to establish "citizens' juries," drawn by random lot, to assess the work of representatives between elections. Such "popular surveillance" of deputies and other elected officials, she said, would help bridge France's chronic gulf between the elected and the electorate...