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Word: hammering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then McCormack's hand-picked moderates on the subcommittee retired to hammer out the plank. No one familiar with the unpredictable Democrats was willing to guess what shape it would take. But one thing was certain: civil-rights thunder was going to continue to mutter over the Democrats for a long time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Muted Thunder | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel to the press plate. Next morning Private Ervin's ragged ghost haunted the spot (see cut) where the Morning Star cut out the Negro and spited its front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cut & Spite | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...must arouse more interest in his candidacy, Harriman follows an equally clear strategic plan: joggle the Baby. His crucial moment will come when the Democratic resolutions committee meets in Chicago Aug. 6 to hammer out a party platform. His main effort is aimed at using civil rights as an explosive issue to blow the roof off convention hall-and the nomination out of Stevenson's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Care & Feeding of the Baby | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...only Harvardmen competing for Olympic positions were Bob Rittenburg, captain of the 1955 Crimson track squad, and Pete Harpel, the track team's leading hammer-thrower this year. Rittenburg won his heat in the 440 meter hurdles but could not quite make it in the finals as three of his opponents broke the existing world record. Harpel finished well out of the running in the hammer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Places Second to Yale In Ivy Figures | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

...practice charity the poetic way" by doing "welfare work for the soul" through illusion, collusion and delusion. The idea yields an intriguing story, but Casona tends to create character stereotypes instead of individuals (even introducing irrelevant personages for their gimmick potential in act one). Although Casona may at times hammer his points too strongly, he has sprinkled the play with witty epigrams, e.g.: "But, Grandmother, architects don't build old houses-time does," or "When two people are really in love, neither gives the orders: both obey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Jacaranda Tree | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

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