While most of the action occurs in the ring, one memorable scene has the underdog Rocky Balboa hammering himself into shape by running up the stairs to the classical temple that is the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Charles R. Wood, who dreamed up an amusement park based on Mother Goose rhymes, then invested his life savings and hammered nails himself to create it, died on Sept. 30 at home in Glens Falls, N.Y.
Do you think Donald Trump is capable of having the nuclear codes?' Donald Trump doesn't build huge projects by wielding a hammer himself.
Yet as he relaxed briefly in his office on Thursday, Mr. Schulte-Noelle not only acknowledged that the old system was crumbling, but also said he planned to swing the hammer himself.
Some people, including Hugo Swire, the Tory MP who raised it, want Prescott hammered for allowing himself to be compromised as a minister.
The compromise, which the chancellor himself hammered out with opposition leaders at 3 30 a.m. on Monday after days of fruitless negotiations by lower-level officials, brings to a close this chapter in Germany's fitful campaign to shake loose its calcified economy.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the best footballer ever, surrounded by fleece likenesses of himself, hammered from all sides by cosy proclamations of his name.
The rhythm section -- particularly the connection between piano and drums -- was the ultimate in hard-nosed reliability, but Mr. Goldberg also managed to assert himself, hammering percussive accompaniment and striking with hard, unsentimental bop lines in his improvisations.
The article by Max Blumenthal on Sept. 14 set off a chain of follow-up pieces by others and by Mr. Blumenthal himself, hammering away at the allegation that Ethan Bronner, the Times bureau chief, was compromised by his relationship with a public relations firm that arranged paid speaking engagements for him.
