Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, the new economic Golden Age that seemed within reach in the Soaring Sixties failed to materialize. More than any other event, the Arab oil embargo and stunning price boosts of late 1973 signaled to the world that the long party was over. Those hammer blows did more than awaken the , West from its unconscious assumption that cheap energy and other natural resources would always be amply available; the price increases acted as a kind of gigantic consumer tax that gave a mighty push to the overlapping forces of inflation and unemployment that have plagued the industrial nations ever since...
...staunch union man, Cole stayed out on strike and on July 27 was fired for waving a hammer at a busload of strikebreakers. Imrich, a 21-year veteran, held out for 50 days, but on Aug. 21 he crossed the picket line and returned to work. The first time Beverly Cole saw Lolita Imrich after Joe went back, "I just looked at her and said, 'Lolita, you are now a scab,' " she told TIME Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt...
...Federal-era homes that natives often refer to by the name of the families who built them a century ago. They are advertised as "handyman's specials," and newcomers are dazzled by their charm and possibilities. Young homeowners cannot afford to have tradesmen restore them, so they hammer and paint in their own spare time. Conversation at backyard barbecues focuses not on which country club is the "right" one but on discoveries like Rube Goldberg plumbing in the bathroom or death-house wiring in the basement...
...front of telephone directories, are becoming increasingly important in the campaign against child abuse. One is a hot line for parents who are losing control of their emotions and on the verge of harming a child; calling anonymously, they can talk their anger out with a sympathetic listener. "Hammer on a board, count to ten, do anything, but don't hit or touch the child," they are often advised. The other is a crisis center, where the child can be sent until the crisis at home subsides. Often parents and child can meet there in a comfortable neutral atmosphere...
...Hammer, striking deals with Communist nations is nearly instinctive by now. He made his first trip to the Soviet Union in 1921 to help out during a typhoid epidemic. By 1925 Hammer had won a Soviet concession to manufacture writing implements. According to one source, his plant produced 72 million pencils and 95 million pens in a single year...