Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the trades council and employees representatives association contracts are for only one year--so in October or November the smiling will stop, the threats will begin and the University will have to hammer out its two biggest union contracts all over again...
...Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, reserved for the rare event, had been walled up for a quarter of a century. Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Pope Paul VI stood before it and tapped it three times with a silver hammer. With that, workmen lowered the massive door on pulleys, chunks of broken masonry fell, and prelates washed the threshold and doorposts. After a prayer, Paul walked through the doorway into St. Peter's as cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and lay people streamed in behind him. The Holy Year of 1975, with its theme of "renewal...
Shero's critics charge that he sends his men onto the ice looking for a fight. Opponents point to the presence of three "enforcers" in the Flyer lineup-Defense Man Andre ("Moose") Dupont and Wings Bob ("the Hound") Kelly and Dave ("the Hammer") Shultz. That trio seem to swing more at opponents than at the puck. Shultz set a league record of his own last season by occupying the penalty box for 348 minutes, the equivalent of almost six full games. (This year may be worse. He already has accumulated more than 200 penalty minutes...
...most ever spent for a stock acquisition by a Middle Eastern nation. Adnan Khashoggi, 39, a U.S.-educated Saudi whose non-oil business empire already includes two small California banks, recently offered $14 million for a one-third interest in the First National Bank of San Jose. Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp., disclosed last week that "one very prominent Arab," whom he would not identify, bought more than 6 million shares of Occidental, an investment worth at least $80 million at current prices...
Steven Wexler, chief counsel for the Senate Subcommittee on Education and the lawyer who helped the Buckley and Pell aides hammer out their agreement on the amendment, said last night that the amendment would...