Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are likely either to hammer at my shoe or twist my fingers and my sleeve...
...beat began with the insistence of a trip-hammer-chunga-chunga-thump, chunga-chunga-thump. There stood Gary Lewis before the TV cameras, slapping his thighs giddap fashion as he Jet loose with a whine that reverberated-ated-ated like a struck gong Then the three Playboys chimed in with a shivering "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa" Enter a rampaging electric organ, a cascade of tambourines, an explosion of drums ... But wait. Where was all this sound coming from? And Singer Lewis-his lips seemed out of focus...
...roadside park on U.S. 9 outside Luling, Texas, in a car he had stolen in Houston two days before. Parked near by was a pickup truck belonging to San Antonio Contractor Harold Flory, 50, who was fishing in the San Marcos River. Boggs killed Flory with a hammer, then rifled his pockets, and slipped the body into the river It was found there by a motorist who saw a fishing line running from the river to some bushes, tugged on it and, to his horror, pulled out Flory's battered corpse...
...Hungary's Gyula Zsivotsky: a new world hammer-throw record, hurling the 16-lb. weight 241 ft. 11 in. to top Harold Connally's three-month-old mark by more than 8 ft.; at a meet in Debrecen, Hungary. Unprepared for such a contingency, meet officials spent a frantic hour searching for a 100-meter measuring tape- required for gauging record throws. They finally borrowed one from the local water board...
...protective hail of small-arms fire. Then in whirled a covey of U.S. choppers carrying the "anvil"-troops of the South Vietnamese 44th Ranger Battalion, who landed behind the Reds and quickly blocked their avenue of withdrawal. Pinned down, the V.C. had no choice but to fight. The hammer fell with devastating effect: 158 Reds were killed by the ground troops, an estimated 100 more by close-support air strikes. Far to the north, near Danang, U.S. Marines pioneered a new approach to airborne mobility with a large-scale helicopter-borne assault in darkness. It was organized by Lieut. Colonel...