Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAMMER...
...Armand Hammer with Neil Lyndon...
...many code names that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North attracted during the Iran-contra affair ranged from the heroic "Good" to the cryptic "B.G." (for "Blood and Guts") to the macho "Steel Hammer." But the most significant, and bizarre, could turn out to be "Belly Button." That improbable monicker was the name for a Swiss bank account containing $200,000 in Iran-arms profits that were set aside for the former National Security Council aide and his family...
Greenspan often flashes an understated sense of humor and irony. At a TIME Board of Economists meeting in 1984, for example, he talked about the need for political leaders to hammer out a federal budget compromise behind closed doors. Said he: "The old smoke-filled room probably will have to be resurrected, even if it has a NO SMOKING sign...
...companion's fortune grow while he languished in obscurity. Even sexually Halliwell was made to feel inferior; Orton's behavior loudly proclaimed his preference for toiletstall encounters over Halliwell's charms. So on August 9, 1967 Halliwell, aged 41, beat Orton, aged 34, to death with a hammer. He then swallowed 22 Nembutals and died...