Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill's lobbyists, passage climaxed an uphill fight. Some 30 years ago, U.S. humane societies were aghast to discover that a steer being led to slaughter was first stunned by a hammer blow-often ineffectively-then slashed across the throat and allowed to bleed to death. Hogs were shackled by a leg to overhead conveyor belts, jabbed in their jugular veins, sometimes dumped alive into scalding water. The societies pressured meat packers into joining a committee on humane slaughter that achieved some innovations, e.g., some packinghouses began using a captive bolt pistol, which fires a metal rod into...
...trip-hammer blows forced John McClellan to change cherished plans to retire from the Senate and set up a law practice with John. But the blows also drew him closer to his surviving children, two daughters and a third son, James. Then young Jimmy went to the University of Arkansas law school. "I really didn't know what I wanted to be," said he, "but I wanted to be close to my father." The Senator made new plans. He established Jimmy in a practice, planned to leave Capitol Hill in 1960 and join the firm...
...athletes got off to a fast start in the big dual meet with the Soviet Union in Moscow's Lenin Stadium, took an early 42-24 lead as the Russians piled up enough points in the women's events to stay close. U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly upset Russia's world's-record holder, Mikhail Krivonosov, with a heave of 220 ft. 8.88 in. Other U.S. winners: Ira Murchison (100-meter dash), Glenn Davis (400-meter run), Parry O'Brien (shotput), Ernie Shelby (broad jump), Barbara Jones in the women's 100-meter dash...
Chairman Odium (an arthritis victim himself) wrote O'Connor in January of 1957 suggesting that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation merge for an all-out attack on rheumatic diseases. Through last spring, committees of the two foundations met to hammer out terms, but could not agree. Main reasons: the A. & R. F. allows its local chapters wide autonomy, lets them raise funds independently or through United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive...
...were well matched. A solid six-footer with a thatch of red hair, Swope stalked grandly through the city room swinging his massive walking stick, peering at his staffers through a tiny pince-nez, and driving home his dictum: "Pick out the best story of the day and then hammer the living hell...