Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked what he thought would be the major issues of the election. Key said that "what will happen--what usually happens is that one party will take one issue and hammer it to the devil and the other will take another and hammer it to the devil The issues will never be joined...
...three years, the charging bull has pranced up more than 110 points (see chart), has put on weight despite such hammer blows as 1948's Berlin blockade, 1949's recession, 1950's outbreak of war. Each time, with nothing more than a momentary stumble, it has roared back louder and lustier than ever...
...with his job as a stockbroker. He much preferred tinkering in his home workshop, longed for a job where he could work with his hands. In 1928 he pulled up stakes, bought an interest in a tottering California aircraft plant and went to work as a drop-hammer operator. "But after one day, I didn't like the way the place was being run," says Price, "and I asked the board to let me take over as manager. To my utter amazement, they accepted my proposal...
...improve considerably in the spring. Perhaps this is because of an increase of weight events in the warm weather version of the sport. Small, quiet Coach Jaakko Mikkola, a former Olympics javelin star, is a master at tutoring young and strong but untrained men in hurling the javelin, discuss, hammer, and shot...
...Senate Finance Committee, still trying to figure out how to pay for the Government's expenditures, continued to hammer away at a tax bill. By week's end, instead of adding, Senators had tentatively snipped an estimated $1.4 billion from the $7.2 billion tax boost approved by the House. In a long week's work the committee...