Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Townsend Jr. took command in June. Formal and aloof, Townsend replaced Owen Oberg, a popular commanding officer who was given to moving among his crew and not above on occasion going over the side of the ship in a bosun's chair to wield a symbolic chip hammer. "He treated everyone as a minority of one," explained one sailor. Oberg had a way of sympathizing with the crew even when passing out an unpopular order, like the frequent extensions to the ship's tour of duty off the coast of Viet Nam. Recalled one crew member: "Ob would...
Peterson has also been a prominent figure in the effort to right the American balance of international payments. As the White House adviser on trade in 1970-71, he created a slide show using jazzy, multicolored charts to hammer home to high officials that the U.S. share of world commerce was slipping. The presentation deeply impressed President Nixon and helped motivate the U.S. world financial offensive that culminated in upward revaluation of foreign currencies and devaluation of the dollar. Peterson is a firm supporter of Treasury Secretary George Shultz's plan to keep the world's major trading...
Here we are in the all too near future, when pollution is so thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...
...which he dollies in at all too frequent intervals. Rather than heightening the sense of political turbulence, however, this deadens it, lending The Assassination of Trotsky the faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images of Rasputin, riddled by bullets and reeling from poison, are inevitable and surely inappropriate...
Ever since they managed to wrest control away from the Republican Reconstructionists in the post-Civil War days, the conservative Democrats have had a hammer-lock on state politics. Although its specific interests have changed over the years, the Texas political elite has become more sophisticated in its dealings rather than more responsive to the needs of the diverse Texas constituency...