Word: hammerism
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Instead, sixty percent of the white minority voted to support de Klerk and continued reform. The Convention for a Democratic South Africa, a multi-racial conference to define South Africa's political future, will now continue to meet and hammer out proposals for a transition government that gives power to non-whites...
...constant shuffling raised suspicion that Iacocca had no real plan for stepping down but rather, as a bemused insider put it, "wanted to beat Armand Hammer's record" for executive longevity. (Hammer died in 1990 at 92, still at the helm of Occidental Petroleum...
Mrowka describes himself as a hitter who likes to "spray the ball to all fields" and hammer it into the alleys for doubles and the occasional home...
...moniker, "Sammy the Rat." In five days of often chilling testimony, the former Gambino family underboss calmly described the secret inner workings and rituals of La Cosa Nostra and provided gory details of the 19 killings he admitted taking part in. Most of all, he tried to hammer nails into the legal coffin of John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family, who is on trial in Brooklyn for racketeering, gambling, tax fraud and murder. Known as the Teflon Don because of his acquittals in three previous trials, Gotti may find that his luck has finally...
AFTER Bill Clinton lost the governor's race in 1980 (and before coming back in '82), he told the Florida democratic convention how to win an election: "If your opponent picks up a hammer at you," he said, "you need to pick up a meat...