Word: thompson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both proselytes are betrayed by their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle...
Died. Bonar Thompson, 74, Britain's foremost practitioner of the art of soapbox oratory, whose clarion Irish brogue dominated London's Hyde Park Corner for half a century; in London...
...Massachusetts have raised to the level of a genius for self-destruction." The mild applause at speech's end had an ironic ring, since Peabody had just angered many of the legislature's top Democrats by recklessly urging the dumping of veteran Democratic House Speaker John Thompson. The Democratic-controlled House re-elected Thompson, seemed mad enough to mutilate Peabody's programs...
Opening the scoring two minutes after the first period began, Army center Mike Thompson slammed a 25-foot slapper past Harvard goalie Godfrey Wood. The rest of the first period saw only further examples of Grey superiority on their home ground...
...natural right to be, with a roar like a lion and a paw like a bear and a cunning that made hunters old before their time. His legend still lives in the great Southwest, lives in every boy who ever read Lobo, The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Thompson Seton. Now it lives in something more than full color and something less than full credibility in this True Life Adventure by Walt Disney...