Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper on the walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city, from the gutted medical college on Chakpori hill to the barricaded main avenue of Barkhor. Rifle fire and the hammer of machine guns rattled the windows of the Indian consulate general, whose single radio transmitter is the only communication link with the free world. And Red Chinese columns and planes crisscrossed the barren plateaus and narrow valleys of Tibet in search of the missing Dalai Lama...
...field events, the situation is uncertain. Gene Reese of Army has come from nowhere to be a prime contender in the hammer, joining teammate Ed Bagdonas and Al Dorris. The Crimson's Jim Doty and Stan Doten could finish high in the hammer, as could Doten and John Bronstein in the discus. Keith Nance of Army is the favorite in the shot, but Henry Abbot and Steve Cohen could score well for the varsity...
After an excellent winter season in which he set an official national freshman record of 55 ft., 1 1/2 in in the 35-lb. weight, Bailey will turn his attentions to the hammer throw, where he again has record-breaking potential. He is already out-throwing everyone on the varsity with heaves around 170 ft., and he should improve with experience...
Stan Greenspan in the discus, Tom Corbin in the hammer, javelin, and shot, and John Jeppson in the discus and shot will support Bailey in the weight events. Dean Alpine, a potential six-foot jumper, should add points in the high jump. The broad jump, behind Beckwith, and the pole vault are weak...
...another month big labor, in the form of the United Steelworkers of America, will sit down with big business, in the form of U.S. steel company executives, to hammer out a new contract that will not only set the pattern for steel but also for dozens of other industries. As negotiations approach, the two sides are so far apart -and so adamant about it-that they may not be able to get together short of a long strike or a surrender by management, either of which would harm the recovering economy...