Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic. In Clinton, Iowa, impetuous Ezra Adams explained to a judge that irritation at a soap opera had prompted him to 1) ram his fist through the family radio, 2) hack the set to matchwood with a hammer, 3) hurl eggs at random around the room...
...seemed to have materialized in plump perfection from a Helen Hokinson cartoon, roguishly asked a U.N. guard: "Is this the way to the Big Tent?" In one of the main conference chambers, a husky man with a mallet walked up to a side wall and started to hammer away. The four-inch cinder blocks crumbled under his blows. Soon a vast, vandalistic hole gaped in the wall...
...bitter over the cancellations: "The quality of my drawings was lousy, and I got mad when I heard everybody talking about another war before the blood had dried up. I made the mistake of going around trying to hit people with a sledge hammer. I lost my sense of humor. I was floating around with my feet about 20 feet off the ground, and I'm just beginning to get them down to earth again...
...that "the 'transitional' [Communist] dictatorship in Russia is still in effect after 30 years," but are plainly told that U.S. Communists, whose first loyalty is to the Soviet Union, now "seek the downfall of the American system of government." The new booklet's cover shows the hammer & sickle casting a dark shadow over the Statue of Liberty...
...Forces, which would be first to fight in a new war, are still in the early stages of reorganization; the Army Ground Forces, the same. The job of reducing the 8,300,000-man Army of V-E day to peacetime size had been done with a sledge hammer instead of a wrench. Along with its veteran citizen-soldiers, the Army has also lost scores of its brightest professionals, who would not endure the skimpy salaries and slow decay of peacetime Army life...