Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 began to hammer out the language of Article II, Section I, Clause 6 (specifying conditions under which the Vice President assumes the presidency), Delaware's Delegate John Dickinson raised a troublous question. Asked Dickinson: What is meant by the term disability, and who is to be the judge of it? Dickinson got no answer. Last week, 170 years and 33 Presidents later, there was still no answer...
...rocket that dies boosting a satellite in the form of art. Symbolically enough, his last completed picture was of a baby holding a Russian satellite. He was buried with much honor, but naturally no church rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter David Siqueiros made the chief oration, larding it with Communist mouthings. "Even here," cried one of Rivera's daughters, Guadalupe, "you make your propaganda!" "Yes," Siqueiros answered. "Just as Diego...
From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener...
...quick succession, E.C. Tarlov renders a mixer romance with unique sensitivity, the Jester pummels the Crimson with sledge-hammer subtlety, and J.D. Stanley relieves the long gray columns of tedium with spasmodic cartoons...
High in the Rif mountains this week 4,000 young Moroccans hacked away with pick, shovel and sledge hammer, gouging a road out of the wilderness. Even for the peasants who made up three-quarters of the group, the work was exhausting, as temperatures simmered up over 100°. City boys desperately tried to toughen their torn hands with tannin from the bark of cork trees. The work was hard, and nobody got paid-but the whole business was somehow satisfying. The young nation of Morocco was building something for itself...