Word: hammerism
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...benevolence is a grand comic conceit. But Raspail is not joking. A swash buckling world traveler and a columnist for France's moderately conservative Le Figaro, he prefaces his book by insisting that it is "no wild-eyed dream," then drives his argument home with a trip hammer. With nary a dissenting voice, the seagoing Indians are variously described as "Ganges scum," "starving bastards," a "stinking mob" and a "filthy mess." The only praise in the novel goes to some doomed white hunters who hap pily kill unarmed Indians. Whatever Raspail's private views of nonwhites, he clearly...
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Steve Niemi, Harvard's only other competitor at the meet hammered his way to a tenth place finish in the you guessed it, hammer throw...
...jollies," as Italians call them-that may throw the polls out of whack: 1) some 2.5 million Italians from the ages of 18 to 21, enfranchised only in March, will be voting for the first time, and a large number are expected to mark their ballots beside the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the Partito Comunista Italiano; 2) the polls were taken prior to the elections in Portugal and Communist efforts there to override the results of the balloting...
...plea occurs at a particularly convenient time, because angels of every condition have convened in historic Liederkranz Hall on Manhattan's East 58th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, to hammer out a new moral code for human society. The angels cannot understand a relatively new development called "money," which has become the most powerful of humanity's totems. They begin to suspect that the million-dollar lapel grabber and his wife can help...