Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School, says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral develoment, the school is in the process of overhauling its curriculum and placing more emphasis on collaborative learning and less on the more autonomous, competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things" she says...
...interview after the debate, Share continued to hammer Richardson for wanting to raise taxes. "Elliot was trying to establish that the President secretly harbors a plan to raise taxes," he said...
...phrase was heard less often when it came to the men's events. In the 24 track-and-field events, the Soviet-bloc men outdid their hypothetical Olympic rivals in nine. Power, not speed, was their forte. In the brawny field events-hammer, javelin, discus and shotput-three Soviet athletes and one East German exceeded the winning distances in Los Angeles. In the pole vault, the high-flying Konstantin Volkov of the the U.S.S.R. cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast...
Another Grand Prix winner was Yuri Sedikh, the tanklike Soviet hammer thrower. He seemed to expend more effort in getting to Budapest than in tossing the hammer more than 22 ft. farther than the winning mark in Los Angeles, setting a new world record. After his coach forbade him to participate, he appealed to the Soviet Sports Minister, who allowed him to make the trip. After his triumph, he appeared wistful in an interview. A winning statistic is still only a statistic, and to athletes there remains something magical about a gold medal. Sedikh may have been speaking for several...
Pullaway swimsuits, Ali's magic and the Iron Hammer...