Word: wrenchingly
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...York's Snell, Republican Leader-I'm not going to throw a monkey wrench...
...Ford, an almost U. S.-acclimatized Britisher, still makes little leaps in the dark when he comes to some Americanisms. He writes of a woman getting drunk as "canning herself"; makes Hero Smith figure out that the foreign word "valise" means "grip"; but neglects to translate "spanner" into monkey wrench...
Pierre, a purser on a big French liner, had to be much away from home. The first parting was a frightful wrench for both. Lucienne memorized his cabin and the parts of the ship where he would be. By making a careful itinerary she knew at every moment the ship's probable position. Her love preoccupied her so that she found she was able to "be" where Pierre was, to see him walking the deck, sitting in his cabin, finally even to make him "see" that she was there. At this point their dangerous experimenting stopped. They never talked...
...Allison device is so set that, with the magnets not working, the beam of light passing from the spark through the two cells and mirrors is at a minimum. Then, as the observer watches that minimum, he throws a current of electricity into the magnets. Their opposite fields wrench the light beam. The twisting follows the throwing of the switch by a time interval which must be measured in billionths of a second. Because that infinitesimal measurement is possible and because the time lag is different for every element and every form of every element, it is a delicate analyzer...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...