Word: wrenchingly
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...victims. I presume even Communists have some affection for their children and perhaps even for their wives. As the Negro spiritual has it: "There ain't no hidin' place down here." Those men would not be willing to die, not even that Communism might live . . . JANE L. WRENCH Columbia...
...speaks of his recent change in occupation, Bentinck-Smith leans back and surveys his new Massachusetts Hall office. "It's kind of a wrench to change your whole way of life," he says. One of his favorite contrasts is the linoleum floor of the Bulletin's Wadsworth House offices with his present red carpet. "I sometimes wonder," he concludes, "if I'm not a linoleum man at heart...
...battle itself was the fiercest and the bloodiest of the seven-year-old IndoChina war (see below). Glaring headlines and the wrench of huge casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...
...toll mounted last week. One man was brained with a monkey wrench as he lay sleeping. A woman, tied to a chair, was tortured with a carving knife until she died; two stripteasers were sliced to death with razors; four gangsters were shot down in a columnist's living room; a bartender was murdered in his own saloon, and a small boy was killed by a drunken hit & run driver. A few victims survived, including the two teen-agers who were only beaten to a pulp, and the woman in the flimsy nightgown who was mauled by masked intruders...
...Force announced a plan to hire local civilians to replace 35,000 earthbound airmen doing pencil and monkey-wrench work at overseas bases. Operation Native Son, as the Air Force unofficially dubbed it, will free the 35,000 for military tasks, save a lot of money besides. An Air Force enlisted man, costing $14,000 to train and $4,900 a year to keep, makes an expensive grease monkey; a skilled Japanese mechanic is happy to do the work for $900 a year-handsome wages...