Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John DuMoulin threw the hammer 173 feet, 9 inches to place fourth behind B.U.'s John Lawlor, whose throw of 198 feet, 8 inches was a new meet record. However, neither Jim Doty nor Dunc Johnson was able to advance beyond the trials...
...Moscow, in its newly toughened attitude towards ideological dissension in the satellites, was dropping hints with the subtlety of a trip hammer that it might cancel a promised $175 million Soviet credit for construction of an aluminum plant in Tito's Montenegro on the ground that Tito was also taking money from the U.S. This led Belgrade's party newspaper Borba to suggest that the Soviet Union "believes that it alone has the right to do business with the U.S.," and that it is now Moscow, not Washington, that puts strings on economic...
...charging into history under Major General George Pickett. Their objective was the stone wall in the center of the Union lines, where Staff Lieut. Haskell and the veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over it; and the clicking of the iron axles as the guns were rolled up by hand a little further...
...hammer throw, another surprise Ithacan performance eased out the Crimson's John DuMoulin, who took second place. Paul Boguski made the best toss of his career to win the event at 177 feet, 7 inches...
...only other Yardling winners were Tom Blodgett in the javelin and Stan Doten in the hammer...