Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposed the Taylor appointment as an infringement of the historic U.S. separation of Church and State, made no immediate move to protest his return to the Vatican, which he left 13 months ago after an operation presumably not expecting to return. But the Christian Century, which led the earlier anvil chorus of objection, editorialized pungently...
...semiprivate rooms where graduate students and professors are wont to soft-talk over their coffee. No liquor is sever in any of the various chambers; it just isn't that type of place. The Cock Horse is for sentimental its who like to dream of bygone days when the anvil and hammer changed and the oft-chanted poem was brewing in Longfellow's mind. But the food is every bit as good as the atmosphere...
Lights Out was a sound-effects man's paradise. On one occasion the audible illusion of a victim's hand being smashed on an anvil had to be achieved. Everything was tried from slapping a pork chop with a cleaver to pounding wet paper with a hammer. At last came triumph: a lemon was laid on an anvil and struck with a small sledge...
...cynical duty done, Ambassador von Biilow-Schwante bowed himself out, prepared to leave for Germany. With half of Holland ready to go by default (see above) and with Belgium once more the anvil on which Britain and France must pound out their fears and hatred, Foreign Minister Spaak prepared to report to his chief, Premier Hubert Pierlot; to the Cabinet, which had been in session since 1 a.m.; and to grave young Leopold III, King of the Belgians, who that morning proclaimed himself, like his father before him, the active Commander in Chief of his armed forces, Belgium...
...Benny Leonard," Sweetwater planned to put Jenkins' picture on the town's official stationery, and the new champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...