Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each section of the country, pledging her the "franchise" for that particular area code. Like every other aspect of his life, sex seems to be a game with Riggs; one can almost picture him inviting a woman to join in amorous combat, two out of three falls, with an anvil tied to his waist and a goldfish bowl on his head...
DECATUR, Ala.--The anvil shooting contest at Wednesday's "Spirit of America" fest did not come off because of a lack of gun powder, but there were political fireworks aplenty as Senator Kennedy and Gov. Wallace tried to forge a union between the disparate elements of the Democratic Party...
...final note for those who may be wondering: An anvil shooting contest involves placing one anvil atop another, with black powder in between, and setting a fuse to the powder...
...object is to see who can shoot his 200-pound anvil the furthest. As one man in the Decatur crowd said, all these politicians were fine with him, but he sure hated to miss the anvil shooting.Governor GEORGE C. WALLACE...
These relentless bulletins are part of a chronicle of immense human suffering caused, with a hammer-and-anvil effect, by both Viet Cong terrorism and U.S. firepower. The victim of that disaster is the civilian population, all too easily overlooked amid the concern for American and South Vietnamese military casualties. In the process, millions of civilians, the innocent and largely silent victims, have been killed, injured or rendered homeless. In South Viet Nam alone, there have been an estimated 1,050,000 civilian casualties, including 325,000 dead, since 1965. Reliable figures on civilian losses are not available for Cambodia...