Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These essential difficulties are partly balanced by certain specifically cinematic excellences. Tony Richardson, the director, does fine atmospheric things with grubby streets pouring disconsolate rain, and the nerve-wracking, shouting bustle of a public market. On the other hand, he tends to hammer home his crises much too obviously, and he has not generally done well with his principals. They tend toward loud whispers, harsh, throaty low tones, and quick sharp short sudden utterances--a pattern that has become a movie cliche...
...first time in history that a cosmic flight has been made from the earth to another celestial body." The Soviet moon rocket, with a last-stage weight of 3,342 Ibs., treated against bacteria so as not to contaminate the surface of the moon, carried red pennants and a hammer-and-sickle emblem inscribed "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Perhaps no one will ever know what happened when it hit. It may have dug an invisibly small crater among the natural meteor craters on the moon's scarred face. Perhaps it splashed a brief fountain of dust. Whatever it did, the moon could no longer serve as a symbol of unreachability. Man had sent an object from...
...having abetted Communist spies in Greece, Moscow saw another fine chance to capitalize on Western sentimentality; with a wild beating of propaganda drums, Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov appealed to Greece's King Paul to free Glezos, now a left-wing newspaper editor. But years of servility to the hammer and sickle had finally exhausted the credit that Glezos won by defying the Nazis. Last week, found guilty by a military court, onetime Hero Glezos was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, four years' exile to a barren Aegean island and eight years' loss of civil rights...
Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...