Word: hammerism
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...pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest of all is a converted palace in old Madrid, where, under 18th century tapestries and paintings of the court, diners are offered the specialty of the house: a whole chicken baked in clay, Roman-style, which is deftly parted by the waiter's silver hammer...
...defending NCAA hammer champion, John Flore, who could sweep the weight events; if he is in shape, Bill Norris could be the best miller Harvard will face. But B.U. has little else...
...money partisans also had their say. Senator William Proxmire deplored "an economic-policy civil war." Seymour E. Harris, chairman of the economics department of the University of California at San Diego, called the Federal Reserve's independence "an insane idea," and criticized the use of a monetary "sledge hammer" on the economy. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the Federal Reserve an "anachronistic" body whose rate rise was "visibly uninformed...
...Viet Cong have based their political campaign on the assassination of thousands of tax-collectors and government officials. William Tuohy described in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine how "Viet Cong terror is bloodthirsty, but selective. It is a scalpel, not a hammer. It is aimed at the leaders. In three years they drove out 50 per cent of the Vietnames leaders from the countryside." The selectivity of Communist terrorism often gets distorted by American propaganda; surely a decapitated tax-collector in the village square inspires more loyalty and enthusiasm than fear for the Communists...
Patterson has not fought a good fight since the second bout with Ingemar Johansson. The fast, instinctive combinations that buried the Hammer of Thor are gone. Floyd went into both Liston bouts with a rigid pre-fight strategy -- indicative of a nature that has no place in the ring...