Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coalitions, the Partito Democrazia Cristiana has dominated Italian politics since the end of World War II-to the point that some weary party leaders complain of being "doomed to govern." In the past, the D.C. has often won national elections because middle-class Italian voters who marked the hammer-and-sickle Communist emblem on ballots in local elections as a protest were too afraid to let the Communists come to power when it really mattered...
Finals are almost over, but three Harvard thinclads have been putting in some extra hours in physics. High jumpers Mel Embree and John McCulloh, and hammer-thrower Ed Ajootian will all try to defy gravity at this weekend's NCAA T rack & Field Championships at Penn...
Ajootian has continued the Harvard tradition of outstanding hammer throwers. In 1962, Edward Bailey won the coveted NCAA hammer-throw crown, 14 years after Samuel Felton nailed down the 1948 national crown...
Harvard track stars Ed Ajootian and Mel Embree may have garnered all the publicity over the weekend when they won the hammer throw and the high jump respectively at the IC4A Championships in Philadelphia, but the real news for Harvard was freshman Joe Pellegrini's fifth place finish in the discus event...
Ajootian won the hammer throw on his last toss. "It was a stupid meet," Ajootian said. "The other guys gave it to me." Ajootian's toss of 200 ft. 8 in. was eight feet shorter than his personal best. "I don't think any of us were used to competing in the morning," he said. "Two other entrants had thrown over 200 feet before coming into the meet...