Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is evidence that Fromme was doing her best to shoot the weapon that, at such close range, would almost certainly have killed the President. Some witnesses reported hearing a distinct clicking sound, which could have been made by the hammer snapping forward as she futilely pulled the trigger. In addition, there is the record of what happened to Agent Buendorf when he leaped into action. Instinctively, as he had been trained, Buendorf grabbed for the hammer of the gun, trying to interpose the web of skin between his right thumb and his right forefinger between the hammer...
...hundred or so geologists and seismologists who turned up for the informal monthly meeting of California's Pick and Hammer Club expected an evening of socializing and routine gossip about faults, core samples and volcanoes. Instead, they heard scientific history in the making. As part of his work for the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Research Center, Seismologist Malcolm Johnston had just finished analyzing data from seven monitoring stations set up along the San Andreas Fault in the quake-prone Hollister area. His figures, Johnston told his colleagues, showed that the strength of the local magnetic field...
...countrymen expressed dissatisfaction with his efforts, while only 37% gave approval. Though he could probably push the proposed agreement through the Knesset, he would have opposition from left, right and even the center of his own Labor Party. "This settlement bodes no good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction...
Though Moscow had hoped to hold a European Communist summit conference within the next few months, the meeting has been postponed until next year-largely because the Rumanians and Yugoslavs have defied Soviet attempts to hammer out a unified European Communist position on China. Both Bucharest and Belgrade have been cultivating their relations with Peking. Recently, Yugoslavia has even improved its traditionally hostile relations with neighboring Albania, Peking's surrogate in Europe (and the only European state that boycotted the Soviets' cherished Security Conference). Both Yugoslavia and Rumania pressed hard -and successfully-for a visit from President Ford...
Thema (1958) was one of Berio's first uses of electronic techniques. Another work from the same period is Differences, which pits a small chamber ensemble against a taped version of the same piece. It is a John-Henry-Versus-steam-hammer kind of conflict, only here the sense of epic struggle is all but alone. The taped sounds weave in and out of the performance, giving it an almost antiphonal quality. The only real clash comes when the taped sounds are electronically altered, creating a sense of war between the media...