Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success, meanwhile, news of the Palestine cease-fire raised high hopes. Members of the U.N. Committee on Palestine, meeting briefly, agreed that Egyptian and Israeli representatives should meet with U.N. Mediator Ralph Bunche on the Island of Rhodes this week to hammer out the terms of a permanent armistice. With nothing further to do, the committee then adjourned happily into the unseasonal Long Island sunshine...
...Olympic polevaulter was invited to compete by Sam Felton, who broke the Crimson discus and hammer records last year and is now at the Business School. Felton will get the meet under-way himself with a 35-pound weight throwing demonstration...
Felton took fourth place in the 1948 Olympic hammer throw, while Dreyer, of the New York Athletic Association, was nine times national champion in the 35-lb. weight class. Burnham, captain of the Dartmouth track team, will attempt to break the Dartmouth record in this event, and if as he is up to form has a good chance of doing...
...most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always...
...interested, look for Harvard's Sam Felton throwing the hammer. And you might try to figure out what peculiar from of madness drives a man to throw himself down a twisting track of ice on a three-foot sled at sixty miles an hour...