Word: hammer
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East Germany first competed in the Olympics under its own flag at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. The hammer-and-compass banner was hoisted in victory 66 times, countering the G.D.R.'s image as a walled outcast with the impression of an athletic marvel. Four years later, in the last Summer Games not boycotted by a major competitor, East Germany, with 17 million people, earned 40 gold medals; the U.S., with over 200 million, won 34. National medal counts and per capita ratios are, of course, hardly the stuff of Olympic ideals, nor should athletics be pursued for political...
...temporarily cutting British North Sea oil production by 12.9%. The losses in export earnings and tax revenues from Piper Alpha alone were expected to cost the British government at least $1.2 billion a year, while the losses to insurance companies were likely to exceed $1 billion. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer promised a contribution of $1.7 million to a Piper Alpha disaster fund and an indemnity of some $170,000 to the family of each victim...
...intent was the Communist regime on honoring the occasion that it consigned the Bolshoi Theater, that secular holy of holies, to be the site of one of the major celebrations. The curtain, emblazoned with hammer and sickle, parted to reveal not ballet sets but black-robed churchmen, representatives from numerous faiths, state officials and, wonder of wonders, Raisa Gorbachev. "Your presence here is more than symbolic," New York's Rabbi Arthur Schneier told...
...Panama Canal. Moreover, the fiasco could easily become a major liability to George Bush's presidential quest. Says New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato: "What you have here is an Administration that has set its hair on fire and is trying to put it out with a hammer...
Harvard's highlight in the men's competition came when Co-Captain James Russell won the outdoor hammer championship--defeating Dartmouth's Dan Ford, the Heps indoor champion...