Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacity for change. Few novelists in years have written as well about the ferocious fragility of family love and family life as John Irving. The World According to Garp has a protagonist?no, a hero?who breaks conventional roles as if they were a halfhearted hammer lock, who not only tends the kids while his wife works and keeps the house in order, but actually takes joy in his tasks. Pride. Fulfillment. The book was more than a smash. It was a true literary phenomenon, and there are surely very few admirers of Garp who think, as the boys...
...abiding. Richard Herrin, a courteous, religious chicano who had made it through Yale, certainly fit the nice-guy stereotype-at least until July 7, 1977. That morning, at the Scarsdale, N.Y., home of his girlfriend, Bonnie Garland, 20, Herrin, 23, smashed Bonnie's skull with a hammer as she slept. A few hours later, half-naked and covered in her blood, he surrendered to police in upstate New York, confessing that he had killed...
...juror summed up, "it came down to whether . . . you went with your instincts or your heart." Bonnie's mother Joan had a different interpretation: "If you have a $30,000 defense fund, a Yale connection and a clergy connection, you're entitled to one free hammer murder...
...many students of the presidency have often argued, to a somewhat more centrist position to appear more accommodating, to tone down the rhetoric, to come forth with more substantive proposals....I do think also, it took quite a while for this administration to get its act together and hammer out a start negotiating position. In fact, it wasn't really hammered out, because there are virtually incompatible views within this administration on the START proposal and what the President...
...Hammer--1 Karanikolas (N) 192-1: 2. Dawson (N) 169-10: 3. Alec Quintero (H) 167-6. Shot put--1 Dawson (N) 58-5 1/4; -2. Battistini (N) 52-7; 3. Karanikolas (N) 51-8 3/4. Discus--1. White (N) 167-6 1/2; 2. Dawson (N) 157-6 1/2; 3. Tom Schuler (H) 145-4 1/2. Javelin--1. Garth Andrade (H) 209-0; 2. Joe Bowen (H) 208-11; 3. Quitzau (N) 188-10. Long jump--1. Jim Johnson (H) 7 45; 2. Shinsky (N) 7. 12; 3. Mark Henry...