Word: hammerism
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Harvard did look weak in the short distances and many of the throwing events, but there were a number of hopeful signs, including freshman James Russell second-place finish in the hammer throw--he qualified for nationals with a toss...
...events, Yale sophomore James Driscoll threw the hammer 192-ft., 4-in., beating out his closest competition by 31 feet and obliterating the 1979 meet record...
...those aching to be partaking in the instant history of a new finger on the nuclear button, the new hammer banging the Soviet sickle. Thomas G. Butson of the New York Time's instant-biography of Mikhail S. Gorbachev will come not second too soon...
...increased his quotient of scatological humor; he injects sermonettes on foreign policy and domestic relations; and he provides walk-on parts for celebrities. Should there be any confusion, Marlene Dietrich is the "woman with beautiful crossed legs," and Ernest Hemingway is the burly guy with the mustache who says, "Hammering out a style takes work." He might have added that if you hammer too long, you get pulp...
With cunning and a left jab, the saw and hammer of a boxer, Larry Holmes held David Bey off last week when the latest heavyweight stranger looked strong enough to rip right through Holmes' oaken arms. For four rounds, the only undefeated-and-recognizable champion in the world seemed in awful danger. But when Bey began to fall back in the fifth and sixth, Holmes introduced his right hand, a savage tool, and started to make forceful points, how "this is a very, very hard game," and what "a hell of a job" they had. Later, Bey was able...