Word: wrenching
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...urge to cause trouble transforms into a flinty resolve. They self-medicate with alcohol and analgesics, their compulsion not dissimilar to the reason for Sylvie’s own addiction. Like the ill-fated Erysicthon, they devour themselves, and yet for all their indulgence in masochistic punishment, they cannot wrench free from the consequences of their war-torn pasts. The author of three previous novels centered on the immigrant experience, Lee is still preoccupied with tropes of alienation, estrangement, and a loss of identity. “The Surrendered” simply concerns emigrants of time rather than location...
...After unsuccessfully backing Yanukovych in the 2004 election, the Kremlin repeatedly slammed Yushchenko for his attempts to join NATO and his support of Georgia during its 2008 war with Russia. Twice Moscow has turned off the gas to Ukraine amid payment disputes, as it repeatedly tried to throw a wrench in Ukraine's Western integration...
...strategy didn't work quite as planned. According to Montelongo's e-mail, the other contestants threw a wrench into the mix. Kuo, unaware that Tartaglia was "dead," attacked her anyway. Tartaglia managed to kill Kuo (her target) but ended up stunned. Peck (Kuo's, and now Tartaglia's, target), meanwhile, barricaded himself in the bathroom and refused to come out. “I hid so Alfredo couldn’t kill me," Peck said. "I wanted my friend, Brianne Corcoran, to keep the title of ‘Most Kills...
...about 1/100 the weight. "It's all there," says Sereno, "including the dinky arms." But the new dinosaur, named Raptorex kriegsteini and described in the online journal Science Express, would have been a bit taller and about as heavy as an adult human. Says Brusatte: "It really throws a wrench into the story...
...clunkers he's getting ready to crash and sees the derby as a healthy way to blow off steam in stressful times. "I tell my wife, at least I'm not at the bar or doing drugs," he says. "You know where I am - in the garage turning a wrench...