Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualify for the award, a "novice" must throw the 35-pound weight 50 feet, the hammer 160 feet, or the discus 140 feet. An "experienced" athlete is required to better 53 feet, 6 inches in weight. 168 feet in the hammer, or 149 feet in the discus. Cameron and Forsyth are being awarded novice prizes for their efforts in the discus and 35-pound weight respectively...
...watched the third Red mob in a fortnight hammer its way into the City Hall. They were only about 1,000 strong, and of these only about 50 were determined toughs. At the glass front door six aged clerks leaned heavily: on their arms little white bands designated them as the special "defense force" promised by the acting mayor, Ferdinand Friedensburg...
During his Mexican years, Vidali-Contreras had an outspoken enemy in the U.S., goateed Carlo Tresca, a fearless tyranny-hater and an exiled Italian anarcho-socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
...measure of China's tragedy is not Shanghai's soaring inflation, nor the tide of battles lost & won. It is the horde of refugees streaming southward, 30,000,000 starving, diseased, despairing people. They stand for the breakdown of Chinese society under Communist hammer blows which caught China in the difficult and disturbing transition toward Western progress. The Communist attack has not only halted such progress; it is sweeping away the village, the family-all the ancient pillars of Chinese society which endured despite primitive economics and decadent politics. TIME China Correspondent Fred Gruin last week headed...
...notices. Medals, he keeps, carefully folded in strips of gray flannel. They fill up three or four small boxes. No meet is too small for him in the off season. Last summer, after placing second in the Nationals, he went down to Manchester, Connecticut and won the hammer throw at Tinty's Flying Ranch track and field meet...