Search Details

Word: thompson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Even coach John Thompson is huge. Thompson was a 6 ft. 10 in., all-American at Providence and played with Satch Sanders on the Celtics as Bill Russell's understudy during the mid 1960s. Already this season, Thompson has served as an assistant coach on the U.S. Olympic team and has taken the Hoyas on a twelve day barnstorming tour of Taiwan...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Going Gets Tough | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

True Passion. Daley not only knew how to run a political machine (a word he hated), he also had the rare knack of governing a city. "Chicago works" became a commonplace. Said Republican Governor-elect Jim Thompson, who as U.S. Attorney sent many Daley men to prison: "We lost in democracy, but we went ahead and became a great city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Man Who Made Chicago Work | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Blood and Money, Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...Roots, Haley (2) 2-Passages, Sheehy (1) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 4-Blind Ambition, Dean (4) 5-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (5) 6-Adolf Hitler, Toland (6) 7-Blood and Money, Thompson (7) 8-The Hite Report, Hite (8) 9-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (9) 10-To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Have you ever felt the cobwebs of your soul tingle the way Hunter Thompson's Samoan attorney's did when that great rocking electric buzz flew near, louder, but never quite loud enough? Well, I have just the right Black and Blue buzz for you--it flew in the other day and squashed my roommates flat. The Rolling Stones' latest album. Hot Stuff is the finest example around of blues-finger disco--turn it up and watch the room shudder the way the highway does when its 100 in the shade. Hot Rocks had nothing on this--only burnt your...

Author: By Dianna R. Lange, | Title: 'Flash Gordon Was There In Silver Underwear' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | Next