Word: anvils
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...made rapid progress. It overran Camp Downes, and from that plateau rolled downhill with momentum unchecked, entering Ormoc at week's end. The end run had produced a touchdown. The 77th now held the vital position on the west coast of Leyte; the position could serve as an anvil while other U.S. divisions, like hammers, pounded the Japs caught between. To the northeast were the hammers of the ist Cavalry Division (dismounted) and the 32nd Division; to the southeast was the hammer...
...Chinese in northern Burma had been ambushed and harassed by Jap patrols. The Anglo-American anvil chorus began again to beat out the familiar refrain: the Chinese cannot fight...
...measure"; to watch jullien, famed French-English conductor of the 18505, lift a pair of kid gloves from a gold platter and carefully draw them on his fingers before conducting Beethoven; to hear & see 100 red-shirted firemen at the Boston Peace Jubilee of 1869 clanking 100 anvils to Verdi's Anvil Chorus...
...barrel-chested, wing-collared young Yale instructor glared sternly at his pupils and in a voice that rang like an anvil began to lecture to his first class. He was William Graham Sumner. "He broke upon us," said a pupil, "like a cold spring in the desert." For 37 years Yale students were stimulated by that cold spring. When Sumner retired in 1909, an equally remarkable teacher took his chair. Last week Sumner's barrel-chested, stern-eyed successor, Professor Albert Galloway Keller, faced his last class...
...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...