Word: wrenchingly
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...during the negotiations the Reds stalled and their stalling intensified when Russia's Vishinsky threw a wrench into the truce machine...
...time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there and have to be knocked loose with a crowbar...
...besides a collection of rare knives and swords, which he denies using on the culprits) a wastebasket full of captured tools. This collection of implements taken by cops and proctors from unsuccessful freshman thieves includes one poker, two rusty hollow iron pipes, one hammer, one screwdriver, pliers, one stillson wrench, one car tire wrench, and one unidentifiable tool. He says that this basketful is only part of his original set of tools, many of which have been picked up later by their owners...
...crew of technicians raced out to Richland, eight miles from the check-in gate, to test the suspected wrench and the patrolman's home. Both proved to be radioactive. At once, the intricate machinery of the Atomic Age whirred into action...
With Soap & Water. With a portable Alpha counter the technicians began retracing the patrolman's path from the plant all the way to Richland. The path was none too well marked. He had slipped the hot wrench into his metal lunchbox, and the box had acted as a shield-which frustrated the counter and had protected the patrolman's fellow passengers on the long bus ride home. But the patrolman, his home, his car, and a few areas around the plant (where he had carried the wrench in his hand) were hot enough to make the detectors sound...