Word: wrenchingly
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...poster was tattered; the top right hand corner had been torn off, as if someone had tried to wrench the whole thing down, and over it had been clumsily scrawled in pencil, "Vendus comme les autres" (sold out, like the others...
Despite the monkey wrench that the Business School vacation has thrown into the tournament schedules, Fradd hopes to get as much started as possible this week. On the brighter side of the picture on the courts yesterday, as far as non-competing amateurs was concerned, was the unaccustomed availability of courts...
...first to fight in a new war, are still in the early stages of reorganization; the Army Ground Forces, the same. The job of reducing the 8,300,000-man Army of V-E day to peacetime size had been done with a sledge hammer instead of a wrench. Along with its veteran citizen-soldiers, the Army has also lost scores of its brightest professionals, who would not endure the skimpy salaries and slow decay of peacetime Army life...
...Cape Harting, with crated P-40s on her deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup...
Captain-elect Frank Gurley almost threw a wrench into the NYU scoring plans in the trials Friday when he just missed catching Reggie (1:51:5) Pearman in the last 10 yards of his 330 heat. Although he failed to qualify. Gurley ran his best half of the season, stopping the watch...