Word: hammerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...start off the day, Crimson throwers Al Quintero and Maria Acacia got a quick hold on their reservations for England Quintero, who has been outstanding all season long, beat his nearest competition by over 20 feet, with a toss of 168 feet, seven inches in the hammer throw. Acacia's discus toss of 127 feet took first place by almost five feet. She also took first place in the shot put, but the rest of the throwing events, both men's and women's, went to the Elis...
...when she puts faces with the numbers of the dead. The face of one corpse has been carved to look like a cross. Others have had their mouths filled with dirt or their own genitals. There are recountings of the killings of American Agricultural Advisers Mark Pearlman and Michael Hammer in the dining room of the Hotel Sheraton, the same place where Free lance Writer John Sullivan was last seen alive. She reminds us of the four North American churchwomen who were murdered in 1980, the 50 students killed when government troops attacked the National University, and the doctors...
...official benchmark price of $34 per bbl. but not low enough to suit refiners, who in the U.S., for example, are able to sell what they can make from a barrel for only $26 to $27. As delegates from the 13 member nations harangued, haggled and tried to hammer out a scheme of prices and production quotas that would stabilize the market, Venezuela's Humberto Calderón Berti warned, "If we start fighting, all of us, the price will go down to $20 a barrel...
Most of the guests were celebrated and fell into four categories: vintage movie actors (Roy Rogers, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis), British-born stars (James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Rod Stewart, Elton John), movers and shakers (Henry Kissinger, Armand Hammer) and the special-interest famous (Henry Winkler, Mort Sahl). British reporters were nonplussed by M.C. Ed McMahon but mostly liked George Burns' aging-rake jokes, while the Queen, looking unamused, seemed to scrutinize more than enjoy the pop medley sung by Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. In all, said...
Over the past four months in Boston, 27 volunteers have gathered as often as three times a week to debate, wrangle, let off steam and, sometimes, even agree. Their meetings, some lasting as long as six hours, have had a single aim: to hammer out a program aimed at rescuing Boston's battered public school system. The result of the labors of the Educational Planning Group (E.P.G.), a beanpot of school officials, local lawyers, politicians, housewives and neighborhood leaders of various ethnic and racial persuasions, will be issued this month. Says E.P.G. Counsel Hassan Minor, a former M.I.T. professor...