Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes his specimens home, adds models from his own garden, examines them with a magnifying glass to capture their curvy novelty. He roughs out his ideas in scale drawings in pastel and charcoal before taking up his chisel and hammer. Yet his instinct with natural material rules his work. His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain...
...seed would trust another to roast his kernels for him. Yet few desire the reddened fingers and tattered tongue that comes of shelling them oneself. "If you are ever forced into a sheller's market, however, I suggest you improvise an anvil out of the nearest table and a hammer out of an empty Coke bottle. With luck and experience, you will be able to shell as many as ten in a minute...
...mother-in-law, one of his defense attorneys claimed that some witnesses were influenced by the testimony they soaked up from a beer-parlor TV set before being called themselves. When David Frank McKnight was tried and convicted in Amarillo for killing a crippled pawnbroker with a claw hammer, the judge permitted live coverage after the defendant signed a statement saying he had no objection; later it was learned that a local station had paid McKnight $ 1,000, which he turned over to the lawyer as part...
...officials seemed to be going out of their way to hammer home the idea, that was only because of the current of apprehension that rippled through the world's capitals on the news of Kennedy's murder. European statesmen feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough...
...Courage. Finally, there is no reason for the death of President Kennedy at the hands of an insane individual to cause Congress to become overwhelmingly emotional about the passage of President Kennedy's civil rights legislation--this is a matter to be decided by reason, not emotion. Douglas L. Hammer...