Word: hammerism
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SAVOY THEATER. Hammer...
...enter the compound. But once out of sight, the Arab group stopped to blacken their faces with charcoal or put on hoods, and pull weapons out of their bags. Then they set off toward the Israeli quarters at 31 Connollystrasse, named, in an Olympic tradition, after U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly and his Czech-born wife, Olga, a discus thrower...
...going to pick up the stuff. The police were supposed to stay at the top of some long narrow stairs until I climbed up there with the trafficker. But they started to come down too soon. I felt the automatic in my back. When I heard the hammer click, I dived forward and prayed. There were bullets all around, as usual, but none in me-or the smuggler, for that matter. He got away...
...dance-band music, which included When the Saints Go Marching In for the U.S. and Song for Natasha, in salute to the Soviet Union. The U.S. contingent was led by Discus Thrower Olga Connolly, 39, the mother of four, who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1956 to marry U.S. Olympian Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. In a tradition set by the 1908 U.S. Olympic team, she did not dip the American flag before the grandstand* and matched strength with the men of a number of other countries by holding the flag staff at arm's length during much of the march...
...friend Roy, a still-active patrolman. Kilvinsky (George C. Scott) launches into a rambling, nearly pointless anecdote about a batty old lady who kept seeing a man hovering around her front-porch swing. Friend Roy (Stacy Keach), mostly asleep, listens with polite tolerance. Kilvinsky hangs up, pulls the hammer on his Police Special and blows the back of his head...