Word: hammerism
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...campaigner. Settling into the little New Hampshire town of Harlowe, he begins his auctions with a benefit for the one-man police force. But he is not in town for charitable purposes. Before long, the townspeople's most precious possessions-including, eventually, children-fall under Dunsmore's hammer. Wisps of evil drift through the book, perceived through the eyes of the Moores, a proud old farming family. "You'll pay worse if you try to say no," warns Mim Moore. "Somebody-some head guy somewhere's bound to catch...
...role. I didn't come into it for the sake of politics, I came into it in a time of crisis. I don't know if I'll stick at it after [the emergency] is over. I find it just as satisfying to hammer away at some piece of steel. [As for being Prime Minister], the question doesn't arise. We have 600 million people here, and quite a lot of them have been in this field longer than I have...
...final: eat a lot of aspirin and drink a Coke; eat spoiled mayonnaise; polish off a quart of Charles River water; swallow chunks of chewing tobacco; say you're hearing voices (how can they tell?). One guy had his roomate smash his finger with a hammer. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," he says...
...idea of sharing leadership responsibility, of course, is not new in U.S. corporations. Many firms have informal "inner cabinets" that hammer out difficult decisions. But until recently the arrangement was only rarely made formal. Even now it is used most often as a device to lend continuity during a period when an older chief is stepping down and a fresh leader is taking over...
...market by offering two monstrosities for the price of one (Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man) and finally turned the grand old ghouls into shambling straight men for the giggle brigade (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). In the '50s, and '60s, horror was further debased by Britain's Hammer Productions, which starred Christopher Lee in blood-splotched shockers. Their strongest claim to originality was the introduction of the crimson contact lens...