Word: hammerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that process." Though Reagan's pitch was not illegal, it struck at least one ranking bureaucrat as "a dubious sort of behavior." Added J. Jackson Walter, director of the Office of Government Ethics of Michael's name-dropping: "Why doesn't he just use a hammer...
Broadcast over some 1,700 ABC radio stations at 11:30:24 a.m. (E.D.T.) last Wednesday, that first word in the U.S. of the assassination attempt struck like a hammer. Once again, routines of everyday life were ruptured as millions of U.S. radio listeners, and an estimated 400 million TV viewers around the world, strained for further news from Rome. In the minutes that followed the first bulletin, CBS-TV, then ABC and NBC interrupted soap operas and game shows with special reports that echoed painfully in the memory. Journalists were dismayed by the similarity with the shooting of President...
...name: Shoshana Arbelli-Almozlino, 55, a hawkish Knesset member and teacher, who went to Israel from Iraq. It was a shrewd choice, designed to give Labor more appeal among women and non-European Jews and to counter Peres' own relatively dovish image. In a meeting last week to hammer out the key top half of their final list, Peres sounded oddly hawkish himself. He accused Begin of inconsistency in regard to the occupied territories. "I don't accept Begin's statements," he said at one point. "He says...
...swamps of the hammer throw, Dubliner Colin Ball closed out his Harvard career with a victory toss of 186 ft. 3 1/2 in. Alec Quintero supported him with a 164-ft. 7-in. throw to pick up second. In the shotput, senior Allen Strehler got a second place with a distance of 47 ft. 5 1/4 in., his last Crimson throw before turning in his jersey. And teammate Lanny Tron completed the picture, winning the event with an incredible 49-ft. 5 3/4-in. effort...
Frederick Hammer, executive vice president in charge of consumer banking at Chase Manhattan, recalls a less happy case: "I brought in a very bright M.B.A. from a highly regarded business school in the Northeast not too long ago, and after a superb performance in a staff position, I was so impressed that I gave him complete responsibility for a small business. He had his own sales force, accounting people, processing group-everything. For about six months I was very pleased with the reports I was getting about how rapidly the business was expanding. As we started to do some more...