Word: hammerism
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...Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, a high-school history teacher from Boston, made no concessions to his gimpy left arm (four inches shorter than the right), tossed the 16-lb. hammer to a new Olympic mark...
...anti-American. He also claimed the Russians cheated in boxing, wrestling, and weight-lifting by holding back their entry lists until they saw where other teams were entering their strongest men. And just yesterday morning, reports filtered out of Australia to the effect that the Americans won the hammer throw through the use of "psychological warfare...
...better his own unofficial record. The mile relay team went the distance in 3:07.3, to break another world record. High Jumper Charlie Dumas broke his own unofficial world record with a 7 ft. f in. practice jump. Husky Hal Connolly threw his 16-lb. hammer 244 ft. 10½ in. to break the world record...
...angry chatter of an electric jack hammer replaced the usual quiet hum of conversation last night in Winthrop House as a central drainage pipe went on the rampage...
...announced that, because "their training has been interrupted," the Hungarian Olympic Team (which includes Sandor Iharos, holder of five world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship...