Word: wrenchingly
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...receded far back on his head. His neck is larger than the largest conventional collar size, and his shirts are made to order. So are his suits (eight a year, at $125 a suit). He has huge, deeply calloused, plumber's hands, made to grasp a Stillson wrench or to bang a conference table. His eyes are heavy-lidded, wary: they cloud over like a lizard's when Meany is nettled, and he becomes ominously calm. When that calm descends, says his secretary, "it's time to watch...
From the South Indian state of Andhra last week came a stunning and unexpected check to the Communist advance in Asia. This was the place-a wrench-shaped "linguistic state" of 21 million Telugu-speaking people carved out of its neighbors in 1953-which the Communists had confidently expected to make their first political base in India. They talked extravagantly of turning Andhra into their "Yenan," a citadel from which they could subvert the rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground...
...thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...hobbyist? One needs to be a jack-of-all-trades, attending to . . . the dishes, watering, bathing the kids and dog; weeding, washing the car, answering the phone and door. Then there's the errand running: upstairs for the hammer, down the basement to hunt for the missing pipe wrench. "Hold this board at just this angle at just this moment." "Please get me some more putty." There is sanding. Especially the corners and awkward spots which won't respond to power equipment held in other hands...
...Offutt Air Force Base who stopped on a stroll around the post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion for sports cars had been noted and frowned upon in Washington...