Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many readers who commented on the brute ugliness of Rumania's Communist Boss Ana Pauker after the cover story came this reminder: Ana Pauker has no glamor But it's very often said That her sickle and her hammer Make a fellow lose his head...
...demonstrated his anti-Communism at home by adopting harsh police measures against local Communists, and, at the same time, has managed to keep on good terms with Mao Tse-tung? And in Europe who more fitting than Sir Winston Churchill to meet Malenkov, as he has proposed, and hammer out a modus vivendi between the Communist and non-Communist worlds? This specious reasoning presupposes that the American and Russian systems can be roughly equated. If the political police are vested with undue authority in Russia, so is Senator McCarthy and the FBI in America; if Soviet corrective labor camps...
Since Escapade is such an unsatisfying combination of silly plot and sledge hammer dialogue, the cast can be praised for just keeping the audience in the theatre until the final curtain. Roger Livesey and Ursula Jeans, as the distraught parents, are well together; his gruff and her grace are both engaging. Melville Cooper is excellent in the last scene when his stock, pompous headmaster reveals his individuality...
...told him that all of us were trapped down there and there was nothing we could do. He then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After half an hour, rescue workers heard the tapped-out SOS and groped their way to the trapped...
Tightly wound around the patient's head was a three-layer bandage tourniquet such as Inca and pre-Inca surgeons used. With bronze chisel and copper hammer...