Word: hammering
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Most of the guests were celebrated and fell into four categories: vintage movie actors (Roy Rogers, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis), British-born stars (James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Rod Stewart, Elton John), movers and shakers (Henry Kissinger, Armand Hammer) and the special-interest famous (Henry Winkler, Mort Sahl). British reporters were nonplussed by M.C. Ed McMahon but mostly liked George Burns' aging-rake jokes, while the Queen, looking unamused, seemed to scrutinize more than enjoy the pop medley sung by Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. In all, said...
Over the past four months in Boston, 27 volunteers have gathered as often as three times a week to debate, wrangle, let off steam and, sometimes, even agree. Their meetings, some lasting as long as six hours, have had a single aim: to hammer out a program aimed at rescuing Boston's battered public school system. The result of the labors of the Educational Planning Group (E.P.G.), a beanpot of school officials, local lawyers, politicians, housewives and neighborhood leaders of various ethnic and racial persuasions, will be issued this month. Says E.P.G. Counsel Hassan Minor, a former M.I.T. professor...
None of the stories I have read about arms control affected me as did yours with its picture of the Kremlin façade. The Soviet hammer and sickle are a familiar sight, but I have never seen the emblem superimposed on the globe. That symbol evoked all the long-forgotten cold war fanaticism about Soviet world domination...
...Smith wrote in The New York Times. There must be hoodlums who attend the theater or opera or ballet as well as baseball, football and hockey games, but they never throw things at the actors, and only certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarottie seem to feel that a ticket to the grandstand or the bleachers is a license to the grandstand or the bleachers...
Another piece of equipment of great use to the Center's researchers is the X-ray machine. Several years ago petroleum magnate Armand Hammer sent a Rembrandt entitled "Juno" to be inspected. The painting depicts the wife of Zeus holding a staff. X-ray surprisingly revealed that Rembrandt originally painted Juno empty-handed and with her arms down...