Word: wrenched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point a monkey wrench-apparently flung from the general direction of the Army Ordnance-clunked into the works. The astonished State Department was informed that the War Department disapproved of this deal on two grounds: 1) machine tools needed to make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original...
...moved without a wrench from the Republican to the Democratic Party. And it was he who broke the political truce when World War II began, by coming out for the Third Term ("the President's talents and training are necessary to steer this country, domestically and in its foreign relationships, to safe harbors"). At that time, despite his long belief in internationalism, his hatred of fascism, he believed the U. S. should give up thought of open aid to Britain and France. Later he read Thorstein Veblen's The Nature of Peace and Imperial Germany, and changed...
America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
...kind of U. S. of which Editor White is part and partisan, has typically refrained from looking beyond the seas. Yet now he does so and to him there is no wrench in doing so. He is not even surprised, as he well might be, to find William Allen White climbing through the ropes into the ring with Adolf Hitler. He has long been a one-man committee to defend the kind of democracy that he has known and in his view events have simply given his Committee a new title...
Last week, Irish Hospitals' Trust, Ltd. served dismissal notices to its employes, announced voluntary liquidation. Reason: the war had thrown a monkey wrench into its sensitive international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...