Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hulks of the infield tossed their anchors and made their muscles, but rather obviously missed the boycotters. Nobody can handle a ball and chain quite like a totalitarian. It did not spoil his mood too much when opening-day Flagman Ed Burke missed the finals in the hammer throw. "Just because I didn't advance doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it," he said. Should some young U.S. hammer throwers be inspired, he will be pleased. "They need to learn how to compete," he said kindly. "A lot of them are marshmallows." The winner, Finland...
...China boycotted the Olympics from 1956 to 1976. In 1979, Peking agreed to compete at future Games side by side with Taiwan, but then joined the U.S.-led 1980 Moscow boycott. Like U.S. Volleyball Ace Flo Hyman and her teammates, Chinese Spiker Lang Ping, better known as the "Iron Hammer," had patiently waited for another shot at Olympic glory...
When it comes to buying, the Pentagon can be an easy mark, as demonstrated by the payment of $435 for an ordinary claw hammer that Navy auditors discovered last year. But it was revealed last week that the fleecing of defense is not limited to the buy side: the opportunity to make dubious deals also extends to the sale of military "surplus...
...both fun and profit, Armand Hammer, 86, diversified his legendary business acumen into Arabian horses five years ago. The two top stallions of his 94-horse stable are the U.S.S.R.'s Pesniar and Poland's El Paso, both plucked from behind the Iron Curtain with the Occidental Petroleum chairman's patented blend of bucks and brass. Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski at first refused to sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show...
...Some of the people who call in get a certain exhibitionistic satisfaction from the byplay," Levine says. "Others, more neurotic, have a masochistic tendency to be attacked, to feel self-righteous and ignored." Chicago Psychiatrist Jeffrey Hammer suggests that some callers may see in the talk-show host a surrogate father. The host, says Hammer, "takes the position that he knows better. And what do children do? Try to knock father over...