Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event of the day, however, came at the very beginning of the meet as a crowd gathered to watch hammer throwing giants Tim Bruno of Brown and the Crimson's Tom Lenz square off. Tri-captain Lenz topped his Soldiers Field record-breaking toss of last weekend against Northeastern with a heave of 212 feet, smashing the Harvard record by four feet, and any hopes Bruno might have had for victory...
...captain Tom Lenz led the way in the hammer throw, setting a new stadium record of 206 ft., 8 in., an awesome early-season distance, and fell one foot shy of his own school record...
...captain Tom Lenz pounded away at his own record as two of his hammer throws sailed well over 200 ft., only to be scratched for foul-outs, but prevailed with a toss of 197 ft. 8 in. to nail down...
...subject of U.S. retaliation, Hammer said, "Brezhnev was very upset at the U.S. threats but added that such pressure would not intimidate the Soviets. He seemed especially hurt by the boycott of the Olympics. But he also said that the Russians had survived this kind of cold war before, and they would continue to survive it. He belittled attempts to 'starve us,' as he put it. He said that fortunately the Soviets had their own natural resources and would simply develop them more, and that they would continue to trade with other countries. The only people who would...
Defending the U.S., Hammer said he told Brezhnev that the Afghanistan invasion marked "the first time the Russians had crossed the border of a non-Warsaw Pact country, and that it was difficult for the U.S. to believe that if the Soviets could do that to a neutral country, using such great force, that they would stop in the future." Brezhnev offered no response...