Word: hammerism
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...poisoned that last week virtually everybody, upon hearing sketchy reports that blacks had beaten three Vietnamese men they had mistaken for Koreans, concluded that another monstrous outbreak of bigoted violence had occurred. It turned out that a black youth had fractured the skull of one Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist Mike McAlary: "In this moment...
Field events expert Cathy Griffin performed upto par, winning the shot put and discus andplacing third in the hammer throw, while juniorSuzanne Jones captured a victory in the 5000-meterrun and came back to finish third in the3000-meter run. Injured hurdler SenzeniSteingruber placed fourth in the 400-meterhurdles...
Sophomore Catherine Griffin won the Treasurer's Award for the women with her excellent performance in the field events. Griffin dominated the weights, taking first in the shot put, discus and hammer throw. The sophomore then went on to place behind two teammates in the Crimson's javelin sweep...
Harvard jumped out to an early lead behind Griffin and Mara Beverwyk's hammer throw points, and never relinquished its lead...
...Rian becomes the righteous recorder of black rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply disturbing in its biblical parallels." This romantic notion of violence feels like a hangover from the '60s, and it has no place in a South Africa that aspires to a place in the community of civilized...