Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be burned in the memory of us all-the monstrosities of its villains, the terrible miscarriages of justice and finally, the heroism of Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson...
...crux of the plot, Papa Peppino (Eli Wallach) is seething with suppressed virility because Mama Rosa (Sada Thompson) has denied him the full use of the matrimonial bed for some four months. Furthermore, she does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them...
...Hero. Peers said that his massive investigation had turned up only one man who "had the decency to try to do something" about My Lai-a helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson, who landed during the battle, tried to stop the killing and actually evacuated some wounded civilians to get them away from his berserk compatriots. "That man's the hero," Peers said...
Harvard finally got a break going as Leroy Thompson outraced Yale fullback Rick Tye for a Lyman Bullard pass. Thompson fired from 25 yards out and barely missed the game's first tally as the ball hit the goalpost...
...worked this way, silently, for two years. Then he began to notice some things around the factory. In May 1970, a Vietnam veteran named Gary Thompson was crushed to death by a machine in the Eldon Avenue plant, a machine that had been kept in bad repair. Accidents were so common at the plant that there was one serious injury per employee every year. The day after Gary Thompson was crushed, the Eldon workers walked out--their third wildcat strike in two months. The UAW local didn't support the walkout, though dissident groups inside the plant--like...