Word: wrenchingly
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...reorganization, crop insurance, lessening of farm tenancy, and many others- would either go by the board or be whipped through in slapdash form at session's end. The causes of the stall were clear: the legislative machine had been jammed by President Roosevelt's Supreme Court monkey wrench, gummed by the perplexities of Economy. But for all the disaffection created by the Court issue, and for all its readiness to differ with the President on ways to Economy, Congress had apparently been led so long and so firmly that it lacked either will or ability to order...
...meat, killing thousands annually. In recent times the city has erected modern pounds where unlicensed dogs are humanely chloroformed or poisoned, with a thoroughgoing round-up every spring. Returning to the Istanbul of Kamâl Atatürk in 1935 after an absence of 36 years. Sir Evelyn Wrench was impressed not by dogs but by cats. In London's Spectator he wrote...
...Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano are answerable ultimately only to the Emperor. He felt confident that with the Navy Minister's backing he could throw a big enough wrench into the parliamentary machine to halt it now, perhaps wreck it permanently. Now came the big surprise...
Just as he was about to reach the tangle Bareiter lost his grip, spun out into space. There was a grinding wrench as the hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
After year and a half of vicious newspaper opposition, sales tax resentment, Lindbergh-Hauptmann-Wendel-Schwarzkopf misrepresentations, disappointed job seekers and political monkey-wrench-throwing of Everett Colby et al., my total vote was well within 10% of the total vote I polled in the Gubernatorial primary of 1934. Believe it or not, I consider the results of May 19 primary, 1936, as most satisfying of 15 successive political victories...