Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson might prove the wonder boy of the hammer. Never having thrown one before, he managed to hit over 55 feet with 35-pound weight in the cage this winter, only a foot less than the Harvard record. Dick Rubin, Bob Curran, and Eric Stromstead are also top men. Wilson also excels in the discus. McCurdy expects him to do better than 150 feet before June...
...Washington in conference. If it did not convince them that there might be more than one atomic power in the hemisphere, it at least distracted them from the subject of the forced closing of La Prensa by Dictator Perón. As the delegates settled down this week to hammer out a hemisphere defense policy against Communist aggression, they kept one ear cocked for more offstage noises from Juan...
...script sacrifices them all to Hope's aggressive pursuit of anything for a laugh, from trip-hammer wisecracks to all-out slapstick. Since almost anything he does gets a laugh, none but the most stubborn Runyon fans should mind. Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window...
...Schlosskirche in 1517, he was merely giving customary advance notice of the position he would defend at the weekly discussions of the city's theologians. He was at first dismayed at the chain reaction set off by his attack on the sale of indulgences; only later did he hammer out the fundamentals of what he and his followers held to be a rebirth of the true Christian church...
...could cut a man open with a deft touch, lay his vital organs on his chest and put them all back inside again . . . He straightened noses painlessly with a pine broomstick and a hammer. In all things that counted in medicine, he was up to date...