Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students do seem to be learning far more than at their previous schools, and Pacific High graduates have done well on college board exams, a big aid in university admission since the school is not accredited. "If you are insecure, you will really fall apart here," says Betsy Hammer, 16, who quit San Jose's big Lincoln High School, now finds that she actually works harder and enjoys it more. Tom Pillsbury, 16, who was twice suspended from Ignacio Valley High for long hair, is now absorbed in Pacific's touring drama group, which has had its share...
...passed directly from mother to daughter. Similarly, today's boy is caught early in the educational status mill, so that by the time he acquires a split-level of his own, he has failed to learn from Dad, and so must learn from a book, the management of hammer, nails, plane, saw, screwdriver and puttymanship needed to keep the place from falling about his and his loved ones' ears...
...time, Hope was concentrating on mastering radio. He had misfired on his first guest shots in the mid-'30s. "I tried to do a relaxed, slow format like Jack Benny," he says, "but it wasn't right for me." Slowly, he evolved the technique of the trip-hammer monologue that was to propel him to the top of the Hoo-peratings. On his premiere in 1938, he opened: "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen. This is Bob Hope." That was followed by a single laugh from a stooge in the studio. "Not yet, Charlie," said...
...HAMMER Manhattan...
...going to stick with that question until we hammer out a recommendation," Dean Ford, chairman of the CEP, said yesterday. The Administrative Board has already recommended that the language requirement be abolished, but it is the CEP that formulates Faculty policy on academic questions...