Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half months of investigation at 2:10 p.m. with a raid on the central headquarters at the third floor of a 861 Washington St. apartment house. In order to gain entry, one officer had to smash in the rear door of the flat with a sledge hammer...
Other former college stars in action for the Business School were Sam Carnahan of Oklahoma, Ed Leede and George Bissell of Dartmouth, Dick Hammer of Princeton, Ted Hummell of Lafayette, Dick Garrison of Trinity, Pat Parker of Williams, Tom Bushman of Notre Dame, Jack Hoffmire of Rutgers, and Pete Hager of Princeton...
...lipstick and a momentous ad: "There's a new American beauty . . . she's tease and temptress, siren and gamin, dynamic and demure. Men find her slightly, delightfully baffling. Sometimes a little maddening." In Providence, Mary Burns, 21, hit her father on the head several times with a hammer, explaining: "He's ugly-looking, and he made me that...
...good deal of credit for the 1952 showing goes to a spectacular get-out-the-vote drive sparked by American Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan agency. Beginning last June, the foundation (chairman: New York Banker Winthrop Aldrich; vice chairman A.F.L. President William Green) went hammer & tongs to obtain the cooperation of civic groups, broadcasters, editors, educators, cartoonists, advertisers...
...over 400, cause either a guffaw or an "ooph" depending in each case on the reader's politics over the last six years. A few have lost their sting, but most still retain a quality which can best be likened to the impact of a razor-sharp sledge hammer...