Word: hammeringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other standouts for Harvard were Jay Hughes, who won the hammer throw and the shotput, and Richard Durrett, who led a Harvard sweep of the two-mile...
...handshake becomes an ordeal. Turning a doorknob sends twinges of pain through the forearm. Swinging a racket at a tennis ball-especially if the ball hits off center-causes a sensation that some players compare with being hit in the elbow by a hammer. These are all symptoms of an ailment that has long been familiar to doctors and athletes but is now becoming epidemic in America: tennis elbow...
...rampage, a 6-ft. 9-in., 278-lb. giant named Edmund Emil Kemper III was having one of his frequent fights with his mother, an administrative assistant at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He ended it by hitting her on the head with a hammer and cutting off her head and right hand. He strangled her friend, another college employee, and stuffed the bodies into separate bedroom closets in his mother's Santa Cruz home. Then Kemper, 24, climbed into his car and drove east until he reached Pueblo, Colo., where he placed a call...
...millionaire novelist, composed a self-interview in which he saw himself both as Henry James and Henny Youngman. James, the 19th century novelist with a mind like a surgical-steel tweezers, revealed the delicate attachments between social conventions and motivation. Youngman, a basic Jewish stand-up comic, is a hammer-and-tongs man who reduces his subjects to recognizable pulp...
...Crimson bulge in the field proved to be just enough. Harvard dominated the weight events as Jay Hughes swept the hammer and the shot, Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace, despite a slight leg injury, took a first in the long jump, and Mel Embree continued his winning ways in the high jump...