Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cursory examination (the light was dim), Teply found also that the heel bones were broken, apparently beaten "repeatedly, with a very heavy instrument, for example a hammer." Masaryk's hands were also marked as though he had fought desperately before death...
Through three turbulent decades of labor history, Big Bill Hutcheson has been as unchanging a symbol of U.S. labor as the claw-hammer and the cross-cut saw. Through old and New Deal, his faith in old grass-roots Republicanism never wavered, and his ruthless dictatorship over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America never faltered...
...A.F.L. was too busy fending off Big Bill's savage jurisdictional attacks on rival unions. He revised the carpenters' constitution to admit any member with the remotest connection with a hammer and nails, e.g., ship caulkers, floor layers, furniture workers, and millwrights. He waded happily into the carpenters' ancient fight with metal workers over who should install metal trimming. When the Building Trades Council suspended the carpenters, Hutcheson roared: "The Brotherhood is not looking for a fight, but if they have to fight ... the sooner it is started the sooner it will be over." It ended...
...flippancy, in Belloc's view, must go hand in hand in literature, as they do in life. So, when one of his Four Men puts to the others the question, "What is the best thing in the world?", the Sailor answers: "Flying at full speed . . . and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head goes dizzy." But the Poet says: "[The best thing in the world] is a mixture [of] great wads of unexpected money, new landscapes, and the return of old loves." To which the third man, oM Grizzlebeard, retorts...
Rock & Rye. In Pekin, 111., Tavern Owner Julius Barnes invited the jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky...