Word: thom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thom McCabe, MRA president, said his organization is serious about enforcement...
...thesis topic, who claims "competences in Philologik, Linguistik, Pedagogik, Psycho-Analytik and Aerobik," but whose command of English is not so confident as his manner of address. "What I like is to take your 'campus-novels' . . . and compare them with the works of your better competitors -- as, Thom. Hardy, Max Beerbohm, J.I.M. Stewart . . . and David Lodge." Bradbury cannot resist compounding the young man's confusion ("It was clever of you . . . to work out that in fact I am several if not all of the authors you mention") while offering him a few biographical scoops ("It has been a difficult business...
...clubs, but a few pros have become converts. Slotline putters have helped Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper win tournaments on the senior tour, and Kathy Baker used one in her victory at the 1985 U.S. Women's Open. But most of Slotline's customers have much more modest goals. Thom Smith, 42, a tax lawyer in Fairfax, Va., says he chopped his handicap from 19 to 13 after he began playing with a set of Slotline irons. "I don't get to practice much," he says, "so I need more forgiving clubs." Forgiveness, though, came at a price...
...example, the good woman of the title is Shen Te (Priscilla Smith), a ho' in pre-war Setzuan. A sort of Oriental Mary Magdalene, she is the only person in the province willing to house three Gods (Isabell Monk, Harry S. Murphy and Thom Molinaro) on a fact finding mission from heaven. The deities--who obviously left home without it--reward Shen Te with a small fortune and the admonition to continue being good...
...merger whirlwind started blowing once again last week, into every corner of the economy. Chrysler's agreement to buy AMC was only the most stunning of a series of takeover bids and pacts that swept through the boardrooms of airline companies, book publishers, casino operators, shoemakers and retailers. Says Thom Brown, chief of investment policy at Butcher & Singer, a Philadelphia-based investment-banking firm: "There are so many deals in the works that it's hard to keep a cap on them...