Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed up Route 19 to set up a "blocking position" between the encircling Communists and the South Vietnamese relief column. With this muscle behind them, the stalled South Vietnamese task force, now moving again, found that Communist resistance was melting away, pushed into Due Co with no trouble. "Hammer & Anvil." In the wet, checkered flats of the Mekong Delta, American airmen and South Vietnamese ground troops combined mobility with killing power in a smooth "hammer and anvil" operation near Can Tho. Four companies of South Vietnamese, acting as the "hammer," drove a battalion of Viet Cong ahead...
Either way, the issues of the McDonald-Abel fight were certain to reverberate like an anvil chorus for a long time in steel uniondom and in the executive suites of the industry. In his campaign, Abel accused McDonald of "tuxedo trade unionism," a euphemism for the charge that McDonald has been too friendly with Big Steel's management. McDonald, said Abel, had failed to keep in touch with local problems, had "swept them under the rug, and now the mound is so high you stumble over...
...admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when he finally loses Lorna. He and the chorus launch not into a lover's lament but a rousing, anvil-hard hymn of civil righteousness: "I ain't bowin' down no more...
...Senate voted to take up the bill, has been debating it steadily since March 30. During the last three weeks, Dirksen, who insisted on 50-odd amendments in return for precious G.O.P. votes in invoking cloture against the Southern filibuster (see box), was "beating out the iron upon the anvil of discussion" in conferences with other Republicans, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The fruit of their endeavors was what Dirksen now offered the Senate...
...true savorer of the seed would trust another to roast his kernels for him. Yet few desire the reddened fingers and tattered tongue that comes of shelling them oneself. "If you are ever forced into a sheller's market, however, I suggest you improvise an anvil out of the nearest table and a hammer out of an empty Coke bottle. With luck and experience, you will be able to shell as many as ten in a minute...