Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick with boredom, and stale mental sweat. While his boss, Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to take a look at France's battle against the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). In London, the Foreign Ministers were still hammer-locked in a weary, heavy-breathing propaganda match. Day after day, Vyacheslav Molotov untiringly obstructed any specific action on the peace treaties for Germany and Austria; at the same time he spent hours denouncing the U.S. for sabotaging the peace...
...political pundits who clutter up the U.S. press. Instead, they often make their points through cartoonists who are real caricaturists: alongside the artful sharpshooting of David Low, Strube, Vicky, Illingworth and even the Daily Worker's "Gabriel," much U.S. political cartooning seems as subtle as a paleolithic sledge hammer. London's newspapers and weekly journals alike print comment and criticism more literate and provocative than in most of the U.S. press. And the Sundays, led by the urbane, open-minded Observer and Lord Kernsley's Sunday Times, run no funnies but offer an influential, once-a-week...
...After brooding about Europe's plight, John Hawkins, 39, a Manhattan hansom cabbie, donned a surgeon's gown, led his horse, Sunshine, to the basement of a livery stable, stunned the animal with a hammer blow, and set about carving up the carcass. When Hawkins' project to send meat to Europe was interrupted by police, he explained: "With the coming of winter, I was convinced that thousands would...
...hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...
...peripatetic hammer-&-sickle set in South America, it was bag-packing time...