Word: hammerism
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...first morning in the field and Creaser, a geologist, kneels in the red dirt of Queensland's Gulf country, 200 km northwest of Mount Isa. His right hand clutches a crack hammer, which is poised over a piece of rock the size of two bricks. What's inside the rock will make Creaser's day and remind the rest of the party that, for all the wonders this place has yielded, it has much more to give. "Work at Riversleigh," says team leader Mike Archer, "will go on forever...
...when the conversation turned naturally to Vietnam, Edwards could only listen respectfully to the reminiscences of men with lined faces and battle scars. After dinner, Yarrow grabbed a guitar and started a sing-along of his old standards like This Land Is Your Land and If I Had a Hammer, and the potential for embarrassment was high. But Elizabeth knew all the words, and Cleland chimed in with special intensity. When pressed by the table to demonstrate his developing guitar skills, Kerry demurred, and everyone walked away with the picture of a man confident of his instincts...
...they also inexplicably pointed out that she was able to go to a salon and a spa and buy about $100 worth of groceries that day. "It's a bit confusing what the prosecution is doing at this point," says former San Francisco district attorney Jim Hammer...
Still, it is unclear to what extent the faculty will need to hammer out some of these recommendations. Though Gross is adamant that faculty will be consulted to some extent on all aspects, Feldman says the administration holds almost complete control over the fate of the review’s proposals...
Senior Johanna Doyle—who had been consistently at the top of the Ivy League, if not the Northeast in general—took home second in the hammer toss...