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Word: hammering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus depriving the Christian Democrats of their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...disaster. A terrier bitch whelped beside a dazed crowd at the foot of the memorial to Texas City's World War II dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to his blasted home, started patching it with hammer and nails. One man emerged from the rubble of the Texas Terminal Railway Building carrying $10 million in insurance policies in a bedsheet. He turned them over to the police. After dark, the inevitable looters worked the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Pluperfect Hell | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Guytan (82), J. Holbrook (87), H. Thayer; pole vault-P. Harwood (85), W. Lawrence (92), O. Torrey (102); javelin throw-J. Holbrook, E. Kaelber (90), D. Trimble (103), M. Von Saltza (100); discus throw-T. Cameron (71), S. Felton (76), P. Garland, W. Jackson (89); 16-pound hammer throw-S. Felton, J. Fisher (77), J. Thorndike (112), P. Zeigler (108); 16-pound shot put-P. Garland, W. Jackson, R. Miller (95), A. Wheeler (105). TRACK SCHEDULE 1:45 16-pound hammer throw 2:45 Javelin throw Pole vault High Jump Broad jump Discus throw 120-yard high hurdles (trials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Race, Track Meet Highlight Sports Scene at Home | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

...left the organ and went down to the undercroft where Sexton John Frank, 58, was working. He asked Frank for a hammer, a heavy one. Then he dropped some coins on the floor. He started to pick them up, pretended a 50? piece was missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: I Shouldn't Go On | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...pound shot put--Won by Jackson (H); second, Miller (RIS); third, Flick (B); fourth, Garland (H). Distance--48 ft., 4 1/2 in. 16-pound hammer throw--Won by Bennett (B); second, Fisher (H); third, Felton (H); fourth, Miller (RIS). Distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Trails Rl State, Conquers Brown in Tri-Meet | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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