Word: hammerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...runner sustained a head injury during the hammer throw competition at a Soldier's Field track meet between Dartmouth, Harvard and Brown, The unidentified man was transported by Professional Ambulance to Mass. General Hospital. He was treated and released...
During the hammer throw, one of the visitors made a bad throw that would have been a foul, according to Harvard co-captain Joe Ciollo...
...speech, entitled "Making Peace," Mitchell discussed his experiences as a mediator in Northern Ireland and the circumstances leading up to the Good Friday Accord of 1998, which he helped hammer...
...gleeful exclamation of 65-year-old Desiree, a recent immigrant from Haiti, when she finally comprehended the term. Native English speakers take the words "broom," "sweep," "dishes" and "hammer" for granted. These brand new vocabulary words and phrases will be of critical importance to newly arrived low-income Americans, as they struggle to understand help-wanted advertisements, American shopping malls and even soap operas...
...veteran of near disasters, Autissier claims she's never felt in serious danger. In fact, she was sleeping soundly when Soldini's hammer caromed off the hull of her boat. Still, she is well aware that lethal dangers are never far off. In these same southern Pacific waters in 1997, she broke off from another round-the-world race to search for a French-Canadian yachtsman who had been swamped by rough seas. He was never found. "We race boats, but we're not out to flirt with death," says Autissier. "If one of us doesn't come back...