Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European trade drama wore on, U.S. negotiators in Tokyo were engaged in yet another hammer-and-tongs trade session. A team led by Commerce Department Under Secretary Bruce Smart and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Michael Smith was trying to pry open Japanese markets for U.S. companies in a number of sensitive sectors, including supercomputers, semiconductors and civil-engineering services. After four days of talks Smart described the results as "mixed." Smith hinted that April 1 might be the deadline for another sharp confrontation with Japan, which last year enjoyed a $58.6 billion trade surplus with...
Soviet tanks pulled stranded motorists out of six-foot snowdrifts along the Vienna-Budapest highway. Daredevil Parisians skied down the snow-blanketed steps of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur Basilica. Big Ben's famous chime was reduced to a dull thud as its bell hammer froze. Packs of hungry wolves emerged from the mountains to roam through isolated Czechoslovak villages in search of food. Across Europe last week, wind-whipped masses of frigid Siberian air, often accompanied by heavy snowstorms, sent thermometers plunging to some of the lowest levels of the past quarter of a century, paralyzing transportation, closing schools, businesses...
Junior James Russell and sophomore Joseph Giani finished first and second in the 35-lb. weight hammer throw with Russell's winning throw reaching 18.24 meters...
Ralph: Trippingly told, my sweet. O.K., in the absence of a pettiness adviser, let's hammer out our own contract...
Molotov's name was actually a pseudonym derived from the Russian word molot (hammer). He was born on March 9, 1890, into the Scriabin family, shopkeepers in the provincial town of Kukarka, northeast of Moscow (in what is now the Kirov region), a way station on the long road to Siberia. Young Scriabin chose the nom de guerre Molotov when he entered the revolutionary underground. While still a student in a czarist secondary school, he joined in the abortive 1905 revolution. Molotov helped start up the Communist Party newspaper Pravda and was an organizer of the Bolshevik Revolution...