He was one of those Englishmen wrenched from Mummy at age seven and driven into numbing boarding-school exile.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

Initially, says George Roberts, the head of Oracle's North American sales division, sales reps were horrified to have pricing, one of their most powerful tools, wrenched from their grasp.

ECONOMIST: Web sales

He would take me by the hands and spin me around like a tea cloth full of wet lettuce until I thought my arms would be wrenched from their sockets.

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Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) is wrenched from his village and with a crew of companions, but without his wife and child dragged through the jungle by the fearsome Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo) to one of the great Mayan temples.

NEWYORKER: Apocalypto