Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Second escape attempt from Brushy Mountain, Feb. 5, 1972. Ray somehow got a hammer and a homemade saw, tried to cut a hole through the wooden ceiling of a room next to an auditorium where prisoners were watching a movie. But the film ended before he finished, and he was caught...
Then there was Tom Lenz, who placed fourth in the hammer toss with a 190 ft. 7 in. throw, but who managed to break the freshman record he had set earlier this year...
...observation deck, about 200 Spanish Communists, most of them young, strained to catch a glimpse of their legendary leader. Some waved red flags with the party initials and the hammer and sickle emblazoned in gold. If they had hoped for a chance to greet her, they were disappointed. La Pasionaria was quickly whisked away in a private car to the home of a friend in Madrid. By the time the crowd had run to the baggage claim area, she was gone, leaving the party militants with nothing to do but chant "Si, si, si, Dolores a Madrid...
Other Crimson notables included Ed Ajootian, whose best hammer throw of the day on Friday sailed over the 190 mark to earn him a fourth place berth in that event, which was won by his old nemesis Bill Johnston of Northeastern. Ajootian bested Johnston on the final throw in last year's competition...
...city. Stocky and short (5 ft. 4 in.), he came on as a swaggering, street-wise punk. Introduced to a federal agent one day at the Las Vegas airport, Spilotro looked him coldly in the eye, stuck out his forefinger and moved his thumb up and down like the hammer...