Word: hammerism
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When 47-year-old Discus Thrower Al Oerter wrecked his calf three weeks ago and abandoned his quest for a fifth gold-medal Games, sentiment took a tough loss. But it rebounded marvelously in the person of Hammer Thrower Burke, 44, the singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain...
Lunging across the finish line or regaining balance after a hammer throw, an athlete competing in this summer's Los Angeles Olympic Games will usually know quickly if he has won a medal...
...Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral development, the school is in the process of overhauling the curriculum and placing more of an emphasis on collaborative learning and lesson the more autonomous competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things," she says...
...Hammer says that she has received countless phone-calls from other secondary schools, both co-ed and single-sex, expressing interest in Gilligan's work...
...next test of Contadora's success is expected to come in mid-July. A group of Central American deputy foreign ministers intends to hammer out a negotiating text for the delayed draft treaty. Depending on the outcome, the much praised, little understood Contadora process may take another significant step forward...