Word: hammering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sides have spent nearly six months trying to hammer out details...
Hunter's was not Sydney's only drug case, and his explanation wasn't even the most dubious. In competitions from race walking to hammer throwing, no fewer than three dozen athletes and coaches were removed for using or supplying banned substances. Dozens more had been pulled from the Games before opening ceremonies because they would have been nailed, and uncounted others were taking human growth hormones and other illicit substances for which no tests were administered...
...numerous activities for the kids. On the main stage in front of the Holyoke Center, John Bonaparte '81, a.k.a. "Bonapart the Magician" performed. On Garden Street, there was an inflatable carnival where kids climbed the rock pillar and bounced around in the Moon Walk while at the Strong Man Hammer Swing their middle-aged fathers rolled up their sleeves and flexed long-dormant muscles...
...simply, it hasn't been the same since Gorbachev turned in his hammer and sickle and the laughable Yeltsin took the stage...
...freedom as they waged a doomed battle against Soviet tanks. Twenty-two years later, those streets are once again filled with idealistic young people, but this time the target of their ire is not communism, but global capitalism. The spectacle of demonstrators on the streets brandishing the same hammer-and-sickle logo that had adorned those Russian tanks must look a little bizarre to a Czech population who suffered four decades of the repression, deprivation and tragicomic absurdity of communism; indeed, the standoff between leftist demonstrators and the World Bank and IMF whose summit they're trying to disrupt...