Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian Communists were elected, they would prove once and for all, by the time their term of office is up, that they are as incapable of solving Italy's problems as all of the others preceding them. Amazing, the mystique of the hammer and sickle...
...NATO deputy supreme commander for nuclear affairs, who ran for the Senate as an independent on the Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
...feeling of an est weekend by pounding your finger with a hammer. It feels so good when you stop...
...Jimmy Carter? "It just doesn't seem to me that he's ready for this big league," said Ford. Right then in the Oval Office, it was so quiet the ticking of the grandfather clock sounded like a hammer. "I don't think he is dangerous," mused Ford. "I don't think he is focused on the complexities of the problems we have, or ready to face up to the hard decisions that have to be made." Didn't he like the Carter smile? "It doesn't bother...
...Communists sound more bourgeois than in Italy, where they hope to gain enough votes on June 20 and 21 to influence, if not control, economic policymaking in the next government. (The Paris-based newsmagazine L'Express recently caricatured French Communist Leader Georges Marchais eating spaghetti with a hammer and sickle in anticipation of the boost to his own party.) In its public pronouncements, at least, the Partito Comunista Italiano (P.C.I.) has disowned one of the basic tenets of Marxist economic analysis: that capitalism is in the process of being destroyed by its own contradictions. "This [Italy's economic...