Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiators, who finally reached a settlement at 2 a.m. Next night the same stale leftovers sustained Goldberg and the deadlocked Eastern parties until the early hours, but did not provide enough sustenance to reach a settlement. Goldberg also devoted 20 hours last week to the Groton dispute, managed to hammer out an agreement...
Though Brumel took individual honors, U.S. track and field stars dominated the meet. Husky Harold Connolly whirled the hammer 231 ft. 10 in., breaking his own world record by 1 ft. 1½ in. Miler Jim Beatty ran away from his competition to win the 1,500 meters by 8 yds. in 3 min. 39.9 sec. Discus Star Al Oerter and Broad Jumper Ralph Boston expected tough competition, but had no trouble handling their Russian rivals...
Every schoolboy thinks he knows how the Reformation began: on Oct. 31, 1517, Augustinian Friar Martin Luther took hammer in hand and nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. That challenge to church teaching has always been said to mark Luther's real break with Rome, and for more than 400 years Protestants have celebrated the anniversary of this clerical Sarajevo...
...Daughters of Jerusalem Weeping over Jesus in a piece with a cackling, repeated-note theme ('ha-ha-ha-and-ho-ho-ho'). The same theme turns up when Jesus is Nailed to the Cross (or is it now the 'rat-tat-tat-and-tap-tap-tap' of the hammer...
...cottage," when the Sunday lunch table was set for 250 as a matter of course, and creeping socialism was represented by the 16th Amendment, empowering the Government to levy an income tax. Another knell tolled for those high and far-off times last week as the auctioneer's hammer fell on the contents of The Elms, one of the last of the great houses that were still homes-until the death a year ago of Miss Julia Berwind, at approximately...