Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet troops are still in Cuba. Construction of underground depots, heavy pillboxes, hangars and runways is moving ahead rapidly under Russian supervision. The island's antiaircraft missile defenses are being strengthened. Cuba is virtually under Russian occupation. In Havana's harbor lie a dozen ships flying the hammer and sickle. Cuban shoppers buy Russian canned foods. Plaques and pictures praise "martyrs of the proletariat." Tens of thousands of children are being indoctrinated with Communist propaganda...
Named for the three-tongued bolt of lightning that sparked from Thor's hammer, the Viggen was designed by Saab (for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget). Saab currently reaps half its $136 million annual sales from autos, trucks and tractors, but it is also the Continent's biggest privately owned aircraft manufacturer...
...mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord, and the patient cannot make the movement of his own volition. But after willing himself to do it often enough, the patient contributes some movement of his own. The clincher comes when the therapist swings the hammer and does not hit the right spot, but the knee jerks anyway. Somehow, nerve-muscle control has been extended from the spinal cord to the brain itself...
...free-swinging lumberjacks of the great Pacific Northwest. There was even a song that helped people put up rail-and-post fences. And in the most often repeated labor song of all-wherein John Henry, the Negro Paul Bunyan, works himself to death trying to compete with a steam hammer-the onslaught of the machine makes itself felt as it never could in a thousand pages of conventional history...
...Democratic challenger, Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, was involved in some shady financial deals. Wyatt barked back: "Morton now is willing to scoop into the mud in order to return to high places." Republicans contended that Democratic state employees were ripping down Morton billboards. Wyatt signs were smeared with hammer-and-sickle symbols...