Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Hays Gorey, Ted Gup, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Neil MacNeil, Jay Peterzell, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush...
...meet was a turning point for the team, which went on to win its first-ever league crown that year. But according to Juliet Thompson, Sweetser's roommate, Sweetser has always been modest about her talent...
...Janice came back after the [Yale] meet and we asked her how it went, and she said `fine,'" Thompson mused. "It wasn't until we read the Crimson article the next day that we knew how amazing...
Coming upon a city slicker at his favorite fishing hole, Thompson picks up a rock, carves an X on it, and offers the man a "proposition." He claims that he can throw the rock in the deepest part of the pond and have his hunting dog retrieve it. The man takes the bet, and the dog comes up with the marked stone. The slicker pays up, muttering about dumb luck...
...best of all, watch Titanic Thompson repeatedly succeed against all odds. He tosses a walnut over a three-story building. He drives a golf ball 400 yards. He shoots a live rat in a pitch black basement. Of course, Thompson has things rigged so that none of his "propositions" were really against the odds...