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In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
Jack Irons
Family
Musicians
First
Live
Monkey
Other
Wrench
Along
Did
Moved
Jam
January
Radio
Many
Seattle
Pearl
Pearl Jam
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna Rosin
Women
Quilt
Men
Wrench
Kitchen
Take
Pick
Over
Up
Pipe
Fix
Then
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
Harold Brodkey
Time
Myself
Me
Will
Pain
Out
Wrench
Like
Shock
Die
Unfamiliar
Being
Ill
Agony
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
Howard Rheingold
You
World
Down
Teenager
Our
Broke
Easily
System
Complexity
Entering
Wrench
Could
Devices
Sophisticated
Beyond
Deal
Understand
Equipment
Fix
Automobile
Which
Capability
Your
Used
Now
Street
I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine.
Leroy Chiao
Remember
Walk
Space
Black
Other
Earth
See
Vivid
Blackest
Wrench
Direction
Could
Taking
New
Looked
Unwavering
Hand
Task
Greens
Blues
Floating
Bolts
Mundane
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
Marvin Minsky
Me
Big
Few
Down
Once
Wrench
Could
Feet
Fell
Got
Been
Buried
Heavy
Ground
Standing
Rotating
Base
Started
Set
Position
A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.
Sylvia Plath
Chill
Half
Universe
Babies
Baby
Would
Would-Be
Hated
Wrench
Tender
Had
Polar
Half Years
Felt
Been
Years
Mammoth
Center
Who
Axis
Two
Museum
Bones
I spent four years at Manchester City and won three trophies. It was a big wrench to leave.
Toni Duggan
Three
Big
Spent
City
Wrench
Trophies
Leave
Years
Won
Manchester
Four
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
Wilbur Smith
World
First
Some
Wrench
Eminent
Most
Real
Again
Novel
Publishers
Rejected
Starting
My first toy was an adjustable wrench I called 'my wrencher.'
Archie Manning
First
Wrench
Toy
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