Word: hammered
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...