Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson went on, if there is any doubt about what to do, you don't take the most extreme action first. If you have a little flurry on the border somewhere, you don't take a sledge hammer to kill a fly. You take what action is necessary, and it may be something short of force. The Japanese attack on the gunboat Panay in 1937 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 were good examples. Both were armed attacks; one called for response by armed force and the other...
...Hammer for the Bride. During one of Ray's subsequent romances-an elopement with an Albany widow named Mrs. Janet Fay-Martha intervened even more decisively. Ray promised to marry Janet, drove her to a New York apartment, and got her to turn over checks worth $6,000. But Martha quarreled with Janet, slugged the bride-to-be in the head with a hammer, and ordered Ray to strangle her with a scarf...
...four more years on 33 of the republic's 60 representatives. From the Palazzo del Governo, in which stands the statue of San Marino's foremost honorary citizen, Abraham Lincoln, the blue and white flag of Sammarinese liberty fluttered-and beside it, the Red Flag with hammer & sickle...
Ralph Budd had come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...
Felton, a Business School student who commutes to New York for his meets, went to London with the Olympic team last summer. He placed fourth in the hammer throw at that time...