Word: hammerism
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...From a military standpoint, the spring offensive was straightforward. Pakistani troops swept into Wazir villages while American soldiers in Afghanistan braced near the border to smash al-Qaeda fighters flushed out by the Pakistani advance?"a hammer and anvil" approach, as one U.S. general confidently called it, that never developed. Judging from the daily communiqu?s by U.S. military spokesmen in Kabul, the enemy was as elusive as ever, emerging only to ambush American patrols. One such attack led to the death of 27-year-old U.S. professional football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman...
Harvard’s nine points on the first day of competition came on the backs of two of its field team mainstays. In the hammer throw, senior Johanna Doyle—whose throws throughout the season had her in prime position to be right in the race for the victory—came within just three feet of the winning throw. Doyle’s toss of 54.71 meters left her just shy of Catrina Chisholm...
...Since I placed fourth indoors in the shot, my goals are to improve upon that, qualify for NCAA regionals and also to score in the hammer and the discus,” Ware said...
...women’s side, Doyle took fourth place in the hammer throw with a toss of 56.58 meters. Although her toss was not the best of the semester, it solidified her status amongst the best in the country in the event...
...know, the Luddites used to pound down mill doors with this giant hammer they called ‘Enoch,’” I told my tutor. “They named it after one of the guys who built power looms, and as they smashed they’d chant, ‘Enoch made it!/ Enoch will break it’ in time with the hammers. I think that’s pretty lyrical, don’t you? Maybe I could write about rioters’ chants: history and literature. And sledgehammers...