Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swamps of the hammer throw, Dubliner Colin Ball closed out his Harvard career with a victory toss of 186 ft. 3 1/2 in. Alec Quintero supported him with a 164-ft. 7-in. throw to pick up second. In the shotput, senior Allen Strehler got a second place with a distance of 47 ft. 5 1/4 in., his last Crimson throw before turning in his jersey. And teammate Lanny Tron completed the picture, winning the event with an incredible 49-ft. 5 3/4-in. effort...
Meanwhile, out in the soggy New Jersey marshes, the Crimson hammer throwers followed suit and took third and fifth. Colin Ball sailed his projectile 183 feet for the bronze, and Al Quintero, in his first season hurling for the varsity, reached 159 feet for fifth...
...must say, the most paralyzing pain. . . as if someone had hit you with a hammer." Thus did the nation's premier convalescent describe last week just what it felt like to have been shot in the chest. Admitting that the assassination attempt a month ago "still seems unreal," Ronald Reagan recalled that at first he thought he had been hurt only by being shoved into the limousine by Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr. "When I suddenly found I was coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I'd broken a rib and punctured a lung...
Frederick Hammer, executive vice president in charge of consumer banking at Chase Manhattan, recalls a less happy case: "I brought in a very bright M.B.A. from a highly regarded business school in the Northeast not too long ago, and after a superb performance in a staff position, I was so impressed that I gave him complete responsibility for a small business. He had his own sales force, accounting people, processing group-everything. For about six months I was very pleased with the reports I was getting about how rapidly the business was expanding. As we started to do some more...
...sort of assassination that has become a terrifying commonplace in war-torn El Salvador. One evening last January, two American labor lawyers, Michael Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, were having dinner in San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel with José Rodolfo Viera head of the country's controversial land reform program. Suddenly, two men armed with automatic pistols walked into the dining room and opened fire, killing the three men, then turned and unperturbedly walked out. Like thousands of other killings, these seemed destined to go unsolved. Last week, almost four months after the murders, there appeared...