Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literature, or guns, or large stocks of rice." The captain swatted at buzzing insects with an old French newspaper. "They never fight us unless they outnumber us," he went on. "We can never win this fight militarily. It's just like trying to kill mosquitoes with a sledge hammer...
...Ballard's elegant costumes, The Wisteria Trees has its own strong sense of period and place. And in Louisiana as in Russia, the family will not sell off some of the land they love in order to survive, so that in the end their plantation goes under the hammer, their wisteria vines under...
Zochariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, yesterday sharply criticized the proposed Mundt-Nixon Bill for control of subversive activities, saying that using it to check Communists "is like using hammer to swat a wasp on a baby's head...
...idea it was a wishing well and tossed coins into the water under the wheel. Across from the mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once in a while a short man in an apron would come and hammer resonantly on the anvil; then he would go back across the hall to continue his conversation with the flower girl. On the lawn in front of the shop, a Radcliffe freshman was selling horse shoes for the benefit of the Children's Hospital...
...stop being an open Communist and had gone underground. It was the morning after the Reichstag fire, in 1933, when the Nazis declared open season on Communists (whom they falsely accused of setting the fire). Fuchs read the story in a newspaper, riding on a train. "I took the hammer & sickle from the lapel of my coat where I had carried it," Shawcross quoted Fuchs as saying. "I was ready to accept the philosophy of the party as right in the coming struggle." The Chief Justice, listening with hard lines of patience on his face, opened the small silver...