Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed limit. Several entrants showed up at the garage that nobody knew. Doped up and pilled up and on the wrong side of the thin line that defined the difference between the Teddy Rooseveltism and anti-Naderism and essentially libertarian philosophy of Yates and the dangerous Hunter Thompson nihilism that no one but children and Hells Angels take seriously. "I mean there was guys rolling up to the line with unvented 50 gallon drums of gas rolling around loose in the back of vans. That's 200 gallons of explosion ready to go off as these ninny jackrabbits pile through...
...players between periods proved extremely effective, as the Quakers began to play in a style indicative of their press clippings. Penn controlled the play throughout most of the second quarter, and its relentless offensive pressure resulted in four unanswered goals. But for the goaltending of Co-captain LeRoy Thompson, who made 16 saves all totaled, the score at halftime would have been much greater than...
...foreign observers were quick to blame the U.S. for the plight of South Viet Nam. Saigon's ambassador to Washington, Tran Kim Phuong, stated that it is "probably safer to be an ally of the Communists." In a wild-eyed broadside in the New York Times, Sir Robert Thompson, consultant on guerrilla warfare to President Nixon, argued that "a new foreign policy line has already been laid down by Congress: if you surrender, the killing will stop. It is a clear message, to the world, of the abject surrender of the United States...
...Jerna Jacques's performance on a scrappy midfield unit and attackman David Raymond's three goals and one assist in the fourth quarter, the Bears stampeded the effective but beleaguered Crimson netminder. Baltimore product Leroy Thompson...
...assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best work is his own Personal History (1935), a minor classic on his first years as a swashbuckling, trench-coated correspondent...