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Word: hammering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loss of graduated left tackle Gerard Walters also hampered Zitrides, although Gil Borjeson, star hammer-thrower for the track team, has improved greatly over the course of the season. At left guard Brown has John Pietre, a slow moving veteran. Center has proved another trouble spot, where Zitrides has been going along with Ed Sexton, an inexperienced junior...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Brown Football Team Has One Win in Six Tries | 11/18/1950 | See Source »

...forces moved quickly to cut the escape routes. On the day that U.N. troops first entered the North Korean capital, Douglas MacArthur had called five newsmen to his Tokyo office, explained that he was about to launch another hammer & anvil maneuver. The next morning, on the sixth anniversary of his World War II landing at Leyte, MacArthur took off for Korea in his new Constellation, the SCAP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Damn Good Job | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...borders. U.N. air power harassed and hampered these lines. They could be cut at a critical point by a U.N. landing above or below the mudflats on the west coast opposite Pyongyang. Once MacArthur's men were ashore again, the U.N. would have another anvil on which the hammer of troops advancing from the south could crush the enemy's last organized forces and thus pound out the final victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Phase | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Class of 1951 won't be around to hear hammer and saw on the college's next dormitory, Holmes Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Annex Dorm Delayed Till June | 10/13/1950 | See Source »

...roared in the top two stories and black smoke billowed from its roof. Further on, in a shattered, deserted street, we saw a large cartoon snowing a powerfully muscled arm holding a spindly little guy labeled "USA" while another strong arm hit him over the head with a gigantic hammer. "Some propaganda, huh?" said Sergeant Barnett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: For God, For Country, But Not... | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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