Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blazing hammer and sickle on a hillside outside of the city signaled that the attacks were the work of an increasingly active band of guerrillas who call themselves Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Last week Belaúnde reluctantly cracked down. For the first time since his democratically elected government took power in 1980 after twelve years of military dictatorship, Belaúnde, 69, declared a 60-day national state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and giving police broad powers to seize suspected guerrillas for up to ten days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although...
...second oldest of the still youthful Islanders, a last remnant of the expansion draft that stocked the franchise eleven years ago. He can recall mean times and does so nostalgically. "One problem with playing on a winner," sighs Smith, "is you can't go out and just hammer somebody. It might cost you the game." Nevertheless, he went out and just hammered Gretzky in Game 2, which the Islanders won 6-3. There followed a bit of spearing and slashing, a good deal of cursing and crying, and two more New York victories, 5-1 and 4-2. This...
...Penn Relays on Friday. Sheehan, Dixon, Dwayne Jones, and Brad Bunney finished second in the Distance Relay, turning in a time of 9:27.5, only three seconds over the world record, while Stricker finished second in the mile with 4:36, her best time of the season. Hammer thrower Al Quintero finished fourth at Penn on Friday with the best throw of his career and then went on to top it on Saturday at the GBCs...
After walking out of the building with candles in their hands before a crowd of several hundred student onlookers, the protesters formed a large circle in the center of the campus and began to sing "If I Had a Hammer...
...group spent several minutes deciding upon a song to sing when they left and passed out candles. At 2:30 a.m. the doors were opened and the students, singing "If I Had a Hammer," walked...