Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend and sometime collaborator Richard M. Scammon (This U.S.A.; The Real Majority) to "marinate yourself in the data," notably from The Bureau of the Census (of which Scammon was once director). The statistic-laden result is a selective celebration of American achievement, particularly in the past decade, designed to hammer home one basic message: "The dominant rhetoric of our time is a rhetoric of failure, guilt and crisis. The evidence of Ihe data is the evidence of progress, growth and success." Improvement has been so rapid in recent years, says Wattenberg, that for the first time in history America...
...York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time, generations of Brooklyn schoolteachers struggled more or less successfully to hammer normal English into their pupils' heads...
...diagnosis of schizophrenia is difficult at best; identifying a person who may develop schizophrenia in the future has so far been impossible. Now a University of Chicago research team reports that it has found a way, almost as simple as the hammer-and-knee-jerk reflex test, to do both. The test involves observing the patient's eye movements as he follows the swing of a pendulum...
...That's what he is talking about primarily. You hammer your strong point...
...meaning private-had had a ball game of some kind, but rules, when they existed at all, were strictly local. The desire of old Harrovians and Etonians to go on playing the game in adult life drew them to a conference at Cambridge, where an attempt was made to hammer out rules. The big question was: Should the ball be primarily handled or primarily kicked? Some said handled, and so evolved rugby football. Rugby has become the main game for other public schools. There the sons of gentlemen, who will never have to soil their hands in mine or factory...