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Word: thompson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart gets harder." Perhaps most conspicuously, he is a superb storyteller, running true to the tough, hard-eyed tradition that embraces both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...sister Linda is a Bible freak at Colorado College. Paul Muffly and Lindy Moon are both pre-meds at CU; Lisa Norling and Bill Heiss are also at CU, where she is studying physical therapy and he is studying partying. Gale Lehman is a circus clown, Jim believes. Charlie Thompson, who was a professional ski patrolman at the time the Telluride picture was taken, is still a professional ski patrolman. On July 1, 1976, Jim Baldwin skied off a permanent snowfield atop Mount Epworth into a pile of rocks, fracturing his skull; he died half an hour later. Mary...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...forget the professional sports scene. At the Boston Garden, Sunday afternoon, it's your last chance to catch the Denver Nuggets this season. The Nuggets are currently in first place in their division, and they boast the talents of David Thompson, who can almost jump as high...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: A Very Unsporting Column | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Besides Desaulniers and Bacon, who copped the "A" and "B" crowns, Princeton's Andy Frost won the "C" class by defeating a fellow Tiger, Peter Thompson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Go, Racquetwomen Slow | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...better society from his job. Like he says, all he was there for was "simply to enable the President to function most effectively." Haldeman and Ehrlichman were advance men; their only vision of society came from managing campaigns and advertising accounts. Haldeman's biggie at J. Walter Thompson was Black Flag--he didn't mind anybody eradicating people who were pestering Nixon...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His Briefcase." | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

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