Word: hammerism
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...bosses, Merchán in Viotá, Varela in Sumapaz, are as much masters of their lands as any feudal lord. They fly a hammer-and-sickle flag, liquidate or banish dissenters, brainwash the populace with dinning P.A. systems, maintain their own efficient militia backed by arsenals that include machine guns and mortars. They even collect their own taxes, currently set at 10% of harvests...
...play will be "Hammer of the ," by Firman Houghton, editor magazine, with Aaron described by Aaron as a comedy serious intent, the play is about a battle in an army camp...
...vast majority of delegates in the high-domed Assembly hall broke into applause, Khrushchev, with a mocking leer, began to hammer his clenched fist on his green-topped desk. Whirling in surprise, stolid Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stared at his boss for a second, then hastily assumed a dutiful grin and began to pound away himself...
Williams got his biggest hand as he gave the floor to Pete Seeger, who gyratingly attested to his "love of life," and sang, "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer out a warning...all over this land." The audience joined in, and after a losing attempt to maintain his dignity on a platform of folksinging chemists, theologians, television stars and psychoanalysts, so did Governor Williams. At 12:15 it was all over...
...France's Common Market partners are displeased by De Gaulle's cold assertion that their hope of ultimately converting the Common Market into a true European political union is so much supranational moonshine. De Gaulle's alternative is a confederation of sovereign states whose premiers would hammer out common policy at regular meetings. "A Europe of fatherlands" is the way he sees it. To nearly all the advocates of European unity, this simply seemed a discouraging step backward toward the old-fashioned ententes and alliances of the past...