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Word: hammered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survivors among 24 children in his family, he was "so poor even the poor looked down on me." His father was a carpenter and sometime tippler who was always looking for work. "Occasionally he'd just stand on the corner with his hammer and saw, waiting for someone to come by who needed a job done," recalls Cornelius Parker, whose family ran a funeral home across the street from where the Wilsons lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're Hot, You're Hot | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...rush made little sense. No burning crises divide the President and the men on his summit calendar. Administration officials say that the summits are "not a carefully constructed scenario," that they happened "by osmosis." The purpose of the sessions is not to hammer out agreements, but simply to be noticed. The meetings themselves, a McLuhan-minded diplomat might say, are the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Meetings Are the Message | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Worlds of Luxury. The slap hammer will work on any make of automobile. It is just one device employed by New York car thieves; another is the Curtis key punch, which costs about $150 and will fit in a shoe box. Using a code stamped on the lock tumblers of all American and most foreign cars, an operator can quickly make a "slave key" that will work in both door and ignition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hot Porsche Caper | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Oscar and his pals can work fast because of a simple device known in the trade as a "slap hammer." The gadget is essentially a thin steel rod with a movable weight attached to it; inserted into a lock, it can pull the lock tumbler out of a car door in seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hot Porsche Caper | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...deny Nixon these votes, the Democrats are mapping a senior strategy of their own. It will hammer at the inflation that squeezes the fixed incomes of retired people, Nixon's threat to veto a Social Security increase, and the fact that the Administration asked for less money for old-age programs in 1972 than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Senior Voters | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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