Word: hammerism
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...advantage of the scholar's education. "1 ask you to give to the service of our country the critical faculties which society has helped develop in you here. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, 'whether you will be an anvil or a hammer,' whether you will give the United States, in which you were educated, the broadest benefits of that education...
Spewing mud from its tires, the motorcycle snarled into the sleepy farmyard-and plowed abruptly into a pole. Uninjured, the rider hopped off, inspected the damage, and turned to the startled farmer. "My name is Jill Savage," she said sweetly, "Could I please borrow your hammer...
Behrendt's special skill lies in his capacity to unravel the most labyrinthine international maze, and to explain the most convoluted international personality, with a few deft lines. His Castro is a bellower whose gaping mouth reveals a hammer-and-sickle tongue. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is a perspiring sphinx; West Germany's tough old Chancellor Adenauer, an uncrackable walnut. As depicted by Behrendt, France's De Gaulle wears spectacles that reflect the Gaullist cosmos: a double image of Charles de Gaulle himself...
Moreover, with Nasser's blessing, the easygoing country was consigned to the rule of Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj. Now 36, a ruthless graduate of the French-modeled gendarmerie, Serraj had a hammer lock hold on the country through control of its 15,000-man police force and an army of informers. Strongman Serraj beat and imprisoned thousands of Syrians. So efficient were his spies that garrulous Syrians learned to speak in whispers, developing an ailment known as "Syrian twitch"-a nervous compulsion to glance over their shoulders when talking...
...story reaches its horrifying climax when the hero, serving as a forward observer for his artillery unit, finally gets a chance to bring down the great hammer of the corporation behind him on the visible enemy. The ending, wherein Goodman twists the knife perhaps a bit too hard, deserves to be left unrecorded in a review except to say that the hero loses his mind and wins the Silver Star...