Word: hammerism
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Among the scrub pines and lakes of the Manitoba wilderness, where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
...court jester turned up for auction in London last year, gossips cast doubt on its authenticity, reserving their admiration for Rembrandt's Titus. Lee arranged to have the Velasquez secretly Xrayed, jetted to Madrid to compare it with other works by the Spanish master. When the hammer went down, Titus sold for $2.2 million; Lee walked away with a rare early Velásquez for a modest...
...drips and hums, bangs and roars, the intermittent sounds seem psychologically the worst. A Japanese college student, cramming for an exam, got so maddened by a pile driver that he ended his own noise problem forever by rushing out and putting his head between the pile and the descending hammer. The gentle Mabaans, subjected to loud noises by Rosen and Bergman, suffered spasms of their blood vessels...
...plays her from the start as a very turned-on lady. Jennifer, now 47, even goes at her gardening with a provocative air, tugging at her blouse front while she breathlessly inquires of her son's pal: "Ever been to Corsica? The sun beats on you like a hammer . . . delicious, frightening." Her ultimate surrender proceeds, posture by posture, through moments of squeamish abandon on a dance floor to a New Year's eve when she sweeps downstairs in a feathery ball dress to find the narrow-hipped ne'er-do-well listening to Vivaldi. Somehow, he senses...
...bridge-at midnight trEmbles; The cOuntry-dOctor rAmbles. BAnkers nieces--seek perfEction, ExpEcting All the gifts that wise-men bring. The wind hOwis--like a hAmmer, And the night blOws rAiny. My lOve, she's like some rAven, At my window with a brO--ken wing...