Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which he had rented at a reported $250 a day in preference to a downtown hotel suite...
What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...
...with an orange up his sleeve," complains his flighty wife (whom he adores), "but I've never seen the orange." Romer silently ignores her affair with a playboy until, reaching "the limit," he suddenly fetches out of his sleeve not an orange but a sledge hammer. One blow from Romer and the dancing characters around him disintegrate like glass toys...
...will sign state documents, listen interestedly but noncommittally to politicians' special pleas, deliver speeches carefully edited by others. The Belgian constitution states that "no Royal Act is valid unless countersigned by a cabinet minister." Baudouin has shown no sign of wishing to break out of this constitutional hammer lock, or of wanting to grow bigger than a Premier...
...Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, which gave them happy credence and currency, it was a sinister conspiracy, nourished on Chinese Nationalist gold and spouting un-Americanisms. It was so sinister, in fact, that the Communist Party, in its secret directive of 1949, ordered the faithful to hammer away at the propagandistic phrase...